Sorry I keep stalling with the rescue scene ._.

Damon's POV

*Nearly an hour after the grenade incident*

Slamming the door of his car shut, he saw that Elijah, Katherine and Lucy were already there and the first hybrid was dead. Elijah looked back at the group that arrived and Damon gave a nod of approval for Elijah to open the warehouse doors.

"Rebekah has to be in the building," stated Caroline, walking along side with Damon. She had a stake in her hand for good measure.

"Find her and get the hell out of here," ordered Damon. He expected Caroline to argue back but she didn't say anything and just nodded.

When they entered the building, Caroline, Matt, Bonnie and Jeremy headed off to the right where Dean said that area was guarded more than the others but not as much as the one straight ahead and down to their left. They figured that Rebekah's body was probably there.

The others, Damon, Stefan, Elijah, Katherine, Caitlyn, and Lucy followed Dean forward. Lucy and Caitlyn were using their magic to keep sight of Dean's ghostly aura. It took a bit of power from both witches but as they were working together, they were still strong enough to take down anything that came in their way.

"Watch out!" cried Caitlyn and everyone ducked, except for Elijah, who disappeared.

A plank of flamed wood was thrown in their direction. Damon glanced up to see a platinum blonde haired woman standing fiercely in front of them.

"Ya'll picked the wrong warehouse to go to," said the woman and she pointed her hand at the vampires, giving each one of them a vamp-headache.

Damon and the rest of the vampires fell to their knees. This wasn't like the other headaches they were ever given. It didn't only affect the brain but it was like it was spreading from the head to the rest of the body. Then every part suddenly started to give signals of growing pain.

He heard a shrill, female scream from in front of them but his vision was a little blurry so he wasn't sure what was going on. It looked as if Elijah was holding Tessie and Caitlyn was chanting a spell while Lucy rushed to Katherine's aid.

Once Katherine was back on her feet, Lucy helped Damon. When Lucy went to help Stefan, she was thrown to the side violently. It was Tessie. She broke free from Elijah and was now using her magic on Lucy.

"I'm a lot stronger than you bitches combined," said Tessie, rolling her eyes at the vampires and witches feeble attempts to get to her.

Katherine ran to her and tried to attack but he was thrown off to a side as well. Damon took out a stake and threw it at her but it deflected back at him, stabbing him in the shoulder. This witch was more powerful than any other witch that he had ever met. She was invincible.

Damon managed to remove the stake in his shoulder and his eyes wandered around to look for Caitlyn. She was once again chanting another spell and then Elijah appeared again, holding another stake and this time, he managed to plunge it into the witch's back but this wasn't enough. The witch was more like a vampire than a witch.

Tessie pulled out the stake using her magic and stabbed Elijah's heart. She would have known that this wouldn't kill him but the pain would be there.

This was one Caitlyn took her opportunity and with the help of her magic, she managed to give Tessie a headache of her own. Although this was all Caitlyn could do so with the stake in his hand, Damon hurried and plunged it to her chest, killing her in a few moments.

Stefan, Lucy and Katherine were now on their feet. Elijah stood by Katherine and made sure that she was okay. Stefan looked a bit weak but he was putting on a brave face.

"You three get Victoria and Elena," said Lucy, referring to Katherine, Damon and Caitlyn. "We'll make sure that the hybrids don't attack you."

Then with that, Damon and Katherine followed Caitlyn to wherever Dean led them to. Damon, being more paranoid than he ever was, wondered if they could even trust Dean. For all they knew, he could be leading them into a trap just to save Victoria. They would never know but now was not the time for such thoughts. He needed help and he was going to take it from the people who were willing to give it to him.

They went through a couple of turns and Damon could hear that a fight broke out with the hybrids and Stefan, Lucy and Elijah.

"We're almost there. Klaus got the witch to make this place look like it has more rooms. Dean's just trying to find the girls through his memory of the actual location of the real rooms," explained Caitlyn.

Damon sighed, trying his hardest to believe that and as they kept walking, the sound of the fight got less loud and the sound of Elena pleading for help reached his ears.

Elena…I'm coming for you.

Caroline's POV

"She's here," whispered Bonnie and before they made a turn, Caroline took a quick glance and saw one hybrid standing by the door, guarding it with awareness.

Without making a sound, Caroline nudged Jeremy and tilted her head towards the turn. "Go," she mouthed to him and Jeremy did as he was told. He made the turn and called out to the hybrid.

The hybrid did as Caroline expected him to do. He appeared in front of Jeremy and Caroline turned, breaking his neck with her hands. Jeremy's eyebrows rose and his lips twitched into a smile.

Matt passed by Jeremy and ran to the door. The other three shared a few staggered glances and ran after him. The door had a lock on it, which Caroline broke easily. Matt entered first and his disappointed eyes turned to Caroline's dim blue ones.

"She's not here," he murmured.

Caroline opened her mouth to say something but Bonnie jumped in and said, "No, she's here. The coffin's being cloaked by magic."

Then Bonnie began to walk around the room. She chanted a spell as she did and she didn't stop for at least two and half minutes. She stood in front of one of the walls, a small distance that should have the width of the coffin and she gave a nod of confirmation to the other three.

She did one last spell and the coffin appeared in front of her. She stepped away from the coffin and let Matt open it.

Inside, Rebekah was lying on the white cushioned coffin, her body in grey and her nerves clearly visible on her skin. Matt looked at her with hopeful eyes and held the dagger tightly, pulling it out with a lot of might. This didn't instantly wake her up.

"Maybe I should go help Stefan and the others?" questioned Caroline, about to leave but Jeremy caught her wrist.

"Damon told us to leave when we got to her. We need to go, now," he said protectively.

"Don't worry, Jeremy. I'm going to be fine," she told him, releasing his wrist from his grasp but he caught it once again. He was resistant to let her go. She didn't understand why but after a moment of glimpsing at Bonnie, she had a small understanding.

Matt, Bonnie and Caroline was what were left of his family. With Elena in God knows what state, Jeremy needed the three of them.

Caroline nodded and Jeremy released her hand, looking back at Rebekah.

Matt was still standing by her, looking at her. At least he had her back. Caroline had no idea where Tyler was and until Klaus was taken down, she wasn't going to find out. She wished she knew. She wanted him back, so much.

And half a minute after this thought, Rebekah gasped into life. That didn't take too long. She probably wasn't daggered for much time.

"Matt," whispered Rebekah. She propped herself on her elbow and Matt helped her lean against the edge of the coffin to let her sit comfortably.

"Hey," he replied and touched her now rosy face. The corners of Rebekah's pink lips twitched to a small smile and her eyes got all watery. She blinked them away and looked at the other three faces in the room.

"Thank you," she said. "All of you." She nodded continuously and looked back at Matt, her smile growing and she quickly wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him to her and he hugged her back.

They all smiled at the scene and Jeremy went over to Bonnie, entwining their fingers and they gave each other a gaze of hope and love.

Rebekah let go of Matt, her eyes even more teary than earlier and she jumped out of the coffin, being steadied by Matt holding her arm. She held back onto it and said to Caroline, "Tyler is in the cellar he went to on full moons before."

Caroline's mouth hung slightly and she had to fight the compulsive urge to run out the warehouse and go to Tyler but she couldn't leave yet. She wanted to make sure that Elena was okay. Even though Damon gave them instructions to leave, Bonnie and Caroline agreed in the car that they would go help others once they found Rebekah, even if Jeremy didn't approve.

"Go Caroline," Bonnie told her. "We'll take care of Elena." And with that, Caroline stormed out of the warehouse, into her car and she drove as fast as she could to get to Tyler.

Elena's POV

She was not sure what to feel anymore. She was not sure if she could even feel anymore. She could see again, clearly and what she saw was a distraught, crying Victoria, holding her like a child. The sense of weakness that she felt was terrible. All those days of training with Alaric, all those days of transitioning and learning to cope with being a vampire was a waste if this was how she ended up. In the arms of a seventeen year old girl who was just as weak as her.

Victoria tried to offer her some blood but Elena wouldn't take it. Having vervain blood was going to be just as painful as having the vervain grenade thrown at her once again. She wished it would have killed her. Death seemed to be more kind than what she had been through in the past several hours but she guessed that was the whole point with what Klaus was doing.

Elena's ears became alert and her eyes darted at the door, finally able to move her head again freely. She thought her ears were deceiving her. For a moment, she thought she could hear Damon's voice. No, it can't be…but…Is Damon really here?

"Victoria," she whispered weakly and Victoria looked down at Elena. Her eyes were red, her flushed cheeks were puffy and there were still tears on them. Her hair was in a mess and she looked disastrous. She needed just as much help as Elena did. "They." It was all Elena managed to say and she shut her mouth when Klaus stormed into the room.

"We're leaving," he told Victoria. He came over and pulled her away from Elena.

Victoria tried to fight back, kicking and punching him in places that would have been effective if he wasn't a hybrid and a fifty times stronger than her. "Let me go!" Victoria screamed and kicked him in the shin.

It looked like Klaus's grasps loosened and Victoria tried to head for the door. She must have got the message that the others were here and as she tried for the door, she screamed vociferously, "Help!"

This was only help for a fraction of a second because Klaus caught her again and knocked her out cold. He dropped her to the ground and a man, most likely a hybrid, came in and lifted her up, ready to take her but he waited for further orders from Klaus.

Klaus quickened his pace to get to Elena. He lifted her up and sat her up against a wall. "My sweet, Elena," he told her and pushed the hair back. "I won't kill you. You still have one show to watch before I do."

"Take her," he ordered his hybrid and stood up, getting away from Elena.

One show to watch. Elena feared that something bad was going to happen to someone that she loved but who?

The hybrid walked out and left the room but the vampire and the hybrid in the room turned their attention to the open door when they heard a blood curling scream.

Elena tried not to be too hopeful. For all she knew, it could be the other way around of what she was thinking but it wasn't.

Damon strode in a BAMF* way. Elena smiled and sighed, relieved to see his face. If she were to die then and there, she would be partly satisfied. She saw him before she died. He came for her.

He looked at Elena for only the shortest amount of time and then went straight at Klaus. He threw a punch that Klaus dodged.

Klaus pounded Damon in the stomach and Damon let out a grunt. Klaus pushed Damon to the wall and in a flash, Damon tried to get to Klaus, pressing his fingers into Klaus's chest just as Stefan had done when they first desiccated him but this wasn't enough. Klaus pushed Damon off and elbowed him in the face.

Damon was left blinded for a moment and Klaus took this to his advantage; he made it quick to take out Victoria's stake and he got real close to staking Damon but Caitlyn came in. She used her magic to get it out of his hands and it fell close to Elena.

Caitlyn tried to use her magic to weaken Klaus but somehow, he seemed to have gotten stronger and he ran to Caitlyn, trying to snap her neck but Damon came up from behind and pulled Klaus away. Caitlyn seemed unchanged from this sudden facing of death. Instead, she didn't even take time to recover and tried to weaken him again.

During the time Caitlyn took, Klaus further beat Damon up. There were punches being thrown and despite Damon's hardy efforts to attack with just as much power, he was nowhere near succeeding. Damon's nose was bloody, the red liquid dripping down to his bloody lips and mouth. There were tiny bleeding scars on his face and Elena could see that he felt a lot of pain in his stomach and shoulders, where Klaus had attacked the most.

This was the show that Klaus referred to. One last show to watch. Elena didn't want to die like this, not while watching her love being beaten to death by the man that ruined her entire life.

"Damon," she breathed, looking at him, trying not to breakdown in tears. She needed to stay strong, for both of them.

The beating went on for quite a while and suddenly, Caitlyn managed to get to Klaus as he fell to his knees but not before throwing Damon at Elena.

"Damon," whispered Elena and she lay herself down with whatever energy that she managed to gather and put her hand on his cheek, wiping some of the blood off on her fingers.

"Elena," he whispered back, smiling bloodily. "I'm sorry I was too late."

Elena sobbed and she held back the ones that wanted to follow. With furrowed eyebrows, she shook her head and gasped in some air. "No. You came anyway." She told him, trying to get herself closer to him. He also got closer and took her free hand in his.

"I will never leave you," his soft voice told her soothingly and kissed her on the forehead once they were close enough. He left his scent and coolness on her forehead, which she loved and to feel his lips on her skin gave her a slight sense of relief she had been searching for. "I love you, Elena."

"I love you too, Damon," she whispered and they lie close to each other, keeping each other warm and in company as they waited for death to take them away.

Elena looked over Damon's shoulder to see how Caitlyn was dealing with Klaus and it wasn't good because Caitlyn was now lying on the ground, unconscious and Klaus was walking towards them, looking at the stake that was too far away for Elena to reach. She accepted this as her end, closed her eyes and tightened the grip on Damon's hand. At least she was dying with someone she loved.

Then as Damon's grip on her hand tightened, there was a gasp and a cry from near them and Elena fluttered her eyelashes and her eyes opened, looking over Damon's shoulder once again to see a sight that she did not expect to see.

Damon turned onto his back, still holding Elena's hand and his mouth drooped open when he saw Ester in front of Klaus with the white ash stake in Klaus's heart.

Ester stepped back from Klaus and his whole body lit up into flames, burning his clothes, his skin and the amber flames rising from where the stake was. A tear drop fell from his left eye and Elena read once that tears that fall from the left eye first symbolize sadness. Everything Klaus ever was burned up in him and he was now turning into nothing in front of the woman that he loved and hated the most, his mother. Then in a slow process, his body charred and turned into ash that sat on the floor.

Elena wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad. She wasn't sure whether to break down in tears or to kiss Damon fully on the lips. The man who ruined their lives was finally gone, he was dead and yet, he was still there. He was haunting them, teasing them in the cruelest way. The only way they could live was with him being alive and now that he was gone, they would also die. Even with him gone, he was still there.

"Now what?" Elena asked, automatically and Damon looked back, his face still in astonishment of what had just happened. That was a question that he wasn't sure if he could answer. Now what?

Right. Cliff-hanger. I will be back in a day or two with a new chapter. Tell me what you thought of the chapter and what you think will happen next (:

Stay tuned for next time.

*I really did not find a better way to describe the way he walked in. I really did imagine him to be really bad-ass when he walked in and I was picturing it like the way in episode 21 of season 2 where he rips out Greta's heart and there is lightning and stuff. I imagined it like that but without the lightning.