Chapter 20

"Why are we going there again?'' Ric asked Damon as they climbed into his car. He sat in the passenger seat as Damon got in the driver.

"Where else are we going to look? We've checked everywhere." Damon said back. They were going to the house where Elijah had first taken Elena. It was almost afternoon and they were running out of time.

Damon turned on his car and his phone started vibrating. "What now?" he asked pulling it out of his pocket.

He looked at it and saw he had gotten a text from Caroline. He quickly read it and was pleasantly surprised.

"Change of plans Ric." Damon said to him after reading it. He tossed him the phone and pulled the car around.

"We're going to need that Gilbert ring." Damon said as they drove towards the Sheriff's house.

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"How's your wrist feeling love?" Klaus said to Elena.

She didn't say anything back. She wouldn't look at him.

Klaus sighed. "Silent treatment. Ugh, you're boring. I might just have to go see what Aunt Jenna is doing, she's more fun."

Elena turned to face him when he said that. "Please let her go Klaus. Please. She's the only family I have left." She begged him trying to change his mind.

"Which is precisely the reason that she is going to die. Because of you. You should be proud." He said back to her. "Besides, both of you will be dead, who will miss her?''

Elena started to say, my brother, but stopped herself. Klaus thought Jeremy was dead. If she told him he wasn't, he would go after him again.

"What was that?" Klaus asked her about the sound that had escaped her lips.

"Please just let her go."

"You're not going to change my mind. It's a good thing too that the vampire sacrifice is before I drain you of blood. This way you can watch me kill her." Klaus said happily he enjoyed ruining this girl's life.

There was a loud crash and something flew into the room they were in. Klaus leapt up and glared in the direction it had come from.

"Who's there?" He yelled.

Something else flew towards Klaus but he caught it in his hand easily. He glared at it and then threw it aside looking bored. Elena recognized it as one of Alaric's stakes. She gasped, they wouldn't be that stupid to come here would they?

Klaus looked over at her and noted her shocked expression. She was staring at the stake. "This is probably not one of your best ideas." Klaus turned his head and yelled. He started walking out of the room toward where it came from.

Elena stood up clutching her wrist and walked to the entrance of the room. She snuck a peek around the corner and saw Klaus had stopped walking. He was standing in the middle of the hallway seemingly listening.

Then she saw Damon walking around the corner towards Klaus.

"Damon no!" She yelled at him causing Klaus to look back at her with a smile.

"I would take her word on this one mate. Probably don't want to start a fight with me." Klaus said and then sniffed at the air making Elena think of him as a dog. "You brought another human? That's a great partner in a fight." He said sarcastically.

"There doesn't have to be a fight. Just give us Jenna and Elena and you'll never have to see me again." Damon said cockily.

Klaus gave a sarcastic laugh.

"Damon. Please just go." Elena said to him. He met her eyes and she shook her head. She didn't want him to save her if Klaus would hurt everyone else.

Damon looked back to Klaus. "Fine compromise. Let Jenna go at least. You don't need her, you can use anyone."

Elena was shocked at his compliance to her demand. 'Why would he just let me go? Unless, unless he has some other plan.' She thought to herself. She stared at him trying to figure out what he was doing.

"But you see, why would I let her go? Who would even miss her? I've killed her nephew, by tonight I will have killed her." Klaus said nodding back to Elena.

Alaric came storming into the room with a look of pure rage on his face. He had a stake gun and was pointing it right at Klaus.

"I will." He said. He shot the stake at Klaus and it was going straight to his heart before Klaus grabbed it. He broke it in half and clicked his tongue in annoyance. He threw the stake aside and set a vicious glare on Alaric.

"So, you're the last one? I guess I'll kill you and then it will have been a clean sweep then."

Klaus moved to get to Alaric and Damon pushed him back roughly. Klaus didn't even miss a step. He swatted Damon away as if he were a fly and sent him flying.

Damon hit the wall behind Elena. She ran over to him and knelled in front of him. She closed her eyes when there was a loud crack that she guessed was Klaus breaking Alaric's neck.

"The ring?" She whispered to Damon. He nodded briefly before standing up.

Damon reached down to help Elena up and she grabbed his hand with her right one. He looked down at her and saw her left wrist sticking out at an odd angle. She seemed to not be able to move it. "What happened there?"

Klaus turned around and saw Damon stand and asking about the wrist.

"Elena had a great plan to kill my sister. Rebekah didn't think it was that good though." Klaus said deciding to break up the little party.

Damon was shocked for a second but shook it off. He turned back to Elena, gave her a meaningful look and squeezed her right hand.

"You can say goodbye now, but then you have to leave." Klaus said bored walking towards them. "Don't make it too long though, I want to get out of here."

"Where's Jenna?" Damon asked Elena.

"I don't know. He took her away." Elena's voice was shaking with a sob. "Tell everyone I'm sorry. This is all my fault."

Damon pulled her into a hug and started stroking her hair. "No it's not. It's his." He said motioning to Klaus who was watching them smirking.

"Elena. Bonnie is going to make it all right. You'll be fine." She looked up into his face and saw he was telling the truth in his eyes.

"Too bad I have her too. Goodbye time's up." Klaus said.

Damon smiled at Elena then placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. She buried her face in his chest and continued to sob.

Klaus grabbed Elena from behind and tried to pull her off Damon. When she felt him touch her she grabbed onto Damon harder and wouldn't let go.

Klaus let go of her and walked around behind Damon. He grabbed his neck and snapped it.

Damon's lifeless body fell to the ground; Elena would have been pulled down with it if Klaus hadn't grabbed her. He held her up by her elbow and then reached down and grabbed her wrist. She let out a whimper of pain and Klaus realized he had grabbed her broken wrist.

He started to drag her out of the warehouse by it passing Alaric's dead body. Elena looked down to make sure she saw the ring and sighed with relief when she did.

Klaus heard her relieved breath and said, "You know love, your friend Damon is wrong. You won't be all right." He squeezed the broken wrist harder receiving a cry of pain, " By tonight you'll be dead."

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Damon rolled his neck around after sitting up. He had no idea how long he had been out.

He looked down the hallway and saw two discarded stakes, a stake gun and Ric's body. If he were up it wouldn't be long before Ric was up too.

He pulled himself up and noticed a headache forming at the base of his skull. He rubbed where it was as he walked over to Alaric's body.

"Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey." Damon said to him. When he didn't respond Damon picked him up and threw him over his shoulder. He bent over and grabbed the stake gun.

He walked out of the warehouse to where he had parked his car and saw that someone had let the air out of the tires. He presumed it was Klaus.

"Perfect." He said. He gently dropped Ric's body onto the hood of the car and pulled out his phone. He punched in Jeremy's number and hit dial.

He picked up after two rings and Damon could hear his apprehension over the phone.

"Damon! Where are you? Did you find them? Are they okay?" He asked.

"We found Elena but Klaus killed us then took her away. We don't know where Jenna is. Ric's still out." Damon said very bluntly ripping the Band-Aid right off.

"Oh." Jeremy said sounding disappointed, "That's why we haven't heard from you. Are you going to try to find Bonnie?" He asked.

"We know where she is. We aren't going to go to her. Stefan and Katherine together are very strong." Damon said back. He bent forward and something in his back cracked. That felt good. "Are you still at the Sheriff's house?"

"Yeah of course. What about Jenna? Are you going to find her? Like Bonnie said, even though there is a spell protecting Elena, nothing is protecting Jenna."

Just then Alaric started to stir. "Yeah we're trying. Listen, don't leave the house, you don't have your ring. Don't let the sheriff invite anyone in. ANYONE. Got it?" Damon said.

"Yeah, sure Damon. Just please find them." Jeremy said before someone started shouting in the background.

"Wait!" Damon heard over the line. There was a muffled conversation and then he heard the phone change hands and heard Tyler's voice replace Jeremy's.

"The full moon is tonight." He said.

"Thank you for pointing that out! I had no idea!" Damon said mocking enthusiasm. This kid was an idiot.

"I'm a werewolf! If I stay here I'll transform and hurt everyone." Tyler said Suddenly his statement made more sense to Damon.

He cursed under his breath. He had forgotten about Tyler's transformation. "Fine, you leave but no one else. Find some ropes and tie yourself up somewhere. Don't let anyone see you. Do you understand?''

"Yes. Damon good luck." Tyler said before hanging up.

Alaric was sitting on the roof of Damon's car rubbing his neck. "Where's Jenna?" He asked.

"I don't know, but Klaus took Elena away too. Now we don't know where anyone is."

"Where could they be? We've looked almost everywhere."

"Guess we'll have to look everywhere." Damon replied.

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Elena woke up not remembering how she had passed out for a moment. It wasn't until she felt a steady drip on her shoulder until she remembered.

Klaus had brought her to where he was hiding Jenna. She had tried to get his witch to let Jenna go, not knowing that Klaus was behind her while she was talking. He had smashed her head into the wall, hard, and that's all she remembered. She felt her forehead where there was a large gash, the source of the blood-flow.

She sat up off the ground and looked around. This wasn't the room she had been in before. It looked as if she were in an empty basement.

She sighed and rested her head on the wall. She had no idea where Jenna was. How could she stop Klaus from using her in the sacrifice?

Something fell over in the corner of the room and Elena's head snapped up. It took a few minutes for her eyes to adjust to the din.

Stefan was standing in the corner staring intensely at her.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! I've had a bad case of writers block and I've been very busy. I hope you liked this chapter! Please review if you would like to see another chapter!