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Here's chapter 20!

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Chapter 20:

Mystic Falls, Virginia 2011

On the second day Klaus finally returned to his human form and woke up in the woods. He was covered in dirt and completely naked, but when he saw Elizabeth lie next to him on the ground, he forgot where he was and what had happened to him and focused on her instead. He calmly sat up and caught the scent of blood in the air. Not his, but Elizabeth's. And that was when he remembered what exact had happened the night before. He met her alone in the woods and attacked her.

Anxiously, Klaus looked for the place where he had bitten her and found a bloody bite mark on her arm. Elizabeth was unconscious, so he checked to see if she was even alive and could hear a faint heartbeat. He guessed that the poison in his bite worked much faster than ordinary werewolf bites did and for a moment he actually feared that he was going to lose her.

"You need to heal her, Klaus. She's dying." Elijah said.

Klaus turned to his brother and then looked back at Elizabeth. She was barely breathing. He bit his wrist open and forced his blood down her throat. The blood didn't work immediately, but her wound was starting to heal up a bit. Elijah walked up to him and took her up into his arms, while Klaus got dressed. That had been close. Too close.

"How long has it been?" Klaus asked nonchalantly as he was buttoning his pants.

"Almost two days…" Elijah answered and was about to continue, but he changed his mind. "You lost control of yourself and bit her."

"And?" Klaus pulled on his shirt and glanced at Elizabeth for a moment.

"Do you even care about her or is she just a toy to you?"

Klaus chuckled. He knew what Elijah was thinking and even though Elizabeth did fail to kill him as he ordered her to, then it wasn't a surprise that he was still alive. He knew her better than to think that she had lost all her feelings for him when Elijah obviously still loved her.

"Elijah, do you want to see our siblings again or do you want Elizabeth?" he asked.

Elijah glared venomously at him. Even though Elijah saved him, then he still found it amusing to make him choose between the woman he loved and his own sisters and brothers.

"You should be thankful, Klaus. I could have killed you. But after you have taken me to my siblings, then I'm taking Elizabeth with me. You don't love her anyway so why keep her, right?" Elijah said, knowingly that Klaus would become irritated.

Elijah knew that Klaus loved Elizabeth and no matter how much he tried to hide it, then he couldn't. It was hard not to love her.

"You're right, Elijah. I should be thankful and I'm feeling very generous today, so I'll even forgive you too. Now let's go get my things and I will show you our siblings soon enough."

Elijah suppressed a groan and looked down at the sleeping Elizabeth in his arms instead. Even if he had to make the choice, then he truly didn't know if he loved her more than his siblings. He wanted to love her the most, but he still had certain responsibilities to his siblings.

They went back to Alaric's apartment and on the way Elizabeth began waking up. She was weak and looked pale, but she was alive and that was all that mattered to the two brothers. She rubbed her tired eyes and looked confusedly at Klaus, who was sitting on the passenger seat.

"I… I had the strangest dream," she said and sat up properly. "I dreamt that I was back home in Bulgaria and… what happened?"

"It seems I attacked you, Lizzie. I gave you my blood. You'll be fine, but you really look like shit right now. Here…" Klaus said, smirking teasingly as he handed her a blood bag. Elizabeth rolled her eyes and slurped the blood down eagerly. "How are you feeling?"

"Like shit. But I reckon I will feel so much better if Elijah ran you over with a truck," Elizabeth retorted, making Klaus roll his eyes. "I can't say that I approve of what Elijah did, but I'll let you know that we might have had a shot together if you hadn't killed my parents, tortured me, and kept my sister captured in an apartment."

"Is that supposed to make me beg for your forgiveness? Lizzie, I'm a full-blown hybrid now. I've gotten what I want and could easily get rid of you and your sister. I don't need you anymore."

Elizabeth snorted now. "Then why am I still alive? Why heal me?"

She didn't know if it was because she had been close to dying or if she was just on edge, but it Klaus's presence was starting to annoy her. Mostly because she couldn't look past what he had done to her anymore and wanted her revenge – even if it meant that she was going to die to get it.

None of them said anything the rest of the way, but when they entered the apartment they found Stefan there and Katherine was still trapped. Elizabeth automatically hurried to Katherine and checked if she was alright, which seemed to confuse Katherine slightly.

"I'm sorry I've been such an… idiot. Katherine, I know you hate me, but please believe me when I say this: I choose you. From now on no man will come between us. Okay?" Elizabeth said quietly.

Katherine was about to say something, but suddenly she gasped and the two Petrova sisters saw Elijah fall to the floor with a dagger in his heart.

"You-!" was all Elizabeth could say.

"Oh, don't worry, Lizzie. You're going with him!" Klaus said and suddenly bit her heard in her neck, then shoved a stake into her stomach.

Katherine went to save her sister, but Klaus knocked her away and then shoved a stake into Stefan's chest too. But Elizabeth wasn't done yet. She managed to get up and went to attack Klaus, but he yanked the stake out of Stefan's chest and shoved it into hers instead, while pinning her to the wall with his other hand.

"That was not nicely done, Lizzie. But you know what I always say… love is a vampire's greatest weakness and I'm not weak. You, on the other hand, are and therefore I don't see any point in keeping you alive… unless you of course choose to come with me and never betray me again. So what do you say?" he said tauntingly.

Klaus shoved the stake up to her heart, making her cry out in pain. Katherine couldn't take it anymore. She stepped forward and cried desperately. "Please, Klaus! Stop! Take me instead!"

However, Klaus merely chuckled and shook his head. "C'mon, Lizzie. You know you want to. Why stay here and die when you can live forever with me? Don't you love me?"

He shoved the stake closer to her heart and this time it hurt so much that Elizabeth couldn't keep her tears in anymore.

"You know what, Klaus? No, I don't love you and I won't come with you either. I rather want to die than to live another year with you, you freak!" Elizabeth snarled.

Klaus pulled the stake out of her and watched her as she fell to the floor as well right next to Elijah. He wanted to say something, to threaten to kill Katherine if she didn't come with him, but he couldn't. He just stood there and watched how Elizabeth looked at Elijah with tears in her eyes. She didn't know it, but at that point Klaus knew that Elizabeth had unintentionally made her choice. Even Katherine knew it, but she didn't care. She still loved her sister as much as before.

"Leave, Elizabeth. Leave before I kill you and your sister." Klaus finally said.

"No! I'm not leaving without her! I don't care if I'm going to die a slow and painful death. I just want to get my sister and I away from you!" Elizabeth snarled.

For a few minutes Klaus didn't say a word nor did he show any emotion in his face. He simply walked up to Elizabeth and kneeled at her, forcing her to look him in his eyes. And then he finally spoke.

"You can leave, Elizabeth. With your sister. But in case you find a way to survive, then you better come back to me. I would really hate to let a beautiful ripper like you slip between my fingers."

Elizabeth didn't know what he was up to, but she chose to follow his orders this time and left with her sister. She knew it was wrong to leave Stefan like that, so after telling Katherine to go to a place where Klaus wouldn't find her, she went back to the apartment. She was already starting to feel the pain she felt the night before and was forced down on her knees just outside the apartment door. Klaus heard her though and yanked her inside, looking slightly surprised that she came back so early.

"I knew you still love me!" he said teasingly and went to kiss her, but Elizabeth slapped him and went to Stefan instead.

Stefan had been forced to empty almost a dozen of blood bags and didn't look that good. But then again, Elizabeth had looked better herself.

"You need the cure too…" Stefan said, panting slightly.

"No, I… it doesn't matter, Stefan. But I'll help you get the cure. I promise," Elizabeth said. "This is entirely my fault. And now I'm going to fix it."

Elizabeth cried out in pain again, so Klaus yanked her up and pinned her to the wall.

"You just keep on helping, don't you? But if you really want to help Damon and take Stefan's place as my ripper, then I can easily arrange that." Klaus said

"Fine! I'll do it. Just-just let Stefan go and let him take the cure to Damon first!"

Klaus smirked mischievously and threw the bottle with his blood to Stefan. "You heard her, Salvatore. You're free to go. Don't make me regret letting you go."

Stefan glanced at Klaus and Elizabeth for a moment and then left the apartment, while Elizabeth stayed back. She knew that Katherine was going to hate her for doing this, but she had to save Damon before it was too late and get her sister to a safe place.

"Now that Elijah and Katerina are gone, then I don't see any point of you staying like this… weak and pathetic…" Klaus said, cupping her pale face in his hands. "You always were my favorite. Out of all the women I've slept with and turned, that is."

Elizabeth snorted and sat down on the couch, trying hard to endure the pain she was in. "Is that your way of saying that you do love me?" she asked sarcastically.

Klaus slipped down next to her with a cup of blood. Elizabeth could smell that it was his blood – the cure – but she didn't take it. She hoped that she would die instead of being forced to go with him.

"In a matter of fact, yes. Why do you reckon I saved you in the woods?"

Elizabeth turned her gaze to Klaus and looked him in his eyes. She wanted to curse at herself for falling for him all over again, but she didn't want Klaus to know that she still loved him. He would become so full of himself if he knew that.

"You still killed my parents. You slaughtered them. And you… you tortured me! Which man tortures the woman he loves?"

Klaus shrugged and placed the cup of blood in front of her, then leaned back in the couch.

"Love can make a man do a lot of things. The same thing goes for a hybrid. Remember that, Lizzie."

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