A/n: I really do love knowing that i have so many loyal readers and i love seeing all of the reviews so keep it up. A lot of what is coming up in the chapter is from the show. It will have different dialogue and there will be other differences, but for the most part it is following the same timeline of Vampire Diaries. Enjoy :)

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Bella walks in with Rebekah close behind. The four people in the living room look at the both of them and frown.

Damon grimaces, "What is she doing here?"
Bella ignores him and gestures for them to follow her to the cellar. They walk down there and hear Stefan talking to Alaric.

She steps in, "So which one are you?"
Alaric smiles wickedly, "The one that won't tell you where the stake is."

Bella pulls Rebekah in, "Do what you have to do. We will be upstairs waiting."

Rebekah nods, "I will get it out of him and Nik will never know."

Bella nods and walks away. They all follow her, confused. She sits against the wall outside the cellar and sighs. She couldn't wait for all of this to be over so she didn't have to worry about being killed by her brother. There had to be a way to get rid of his dark side. She would find it. She felt bad that she hadn't been concentrating on that more. It just seemed like when one thing went wrong, everything went wrong.

Stefan clears his throat, "What are we doing?"
Bella looks up surprised, "We are waiting for Rebekah to get the answers we need. She is known for her torture techniques."

Stefan frowns, "How do you know that?"
Bella smiles, "The same way I know that you and her were seen together in the 20s when you were considered the Ripper. I know a lot more and I made it a point to research all the originals after I was turned. It was harder than I expected because a lot of them fell off the face of the planet for long periods of time. That's probably when Klaus daggered them."

Rebekah walks out with Alaric and smiles, "He hid it in the caves. We will go get it and make sure no one can use it against me and my family."

Bella stands up, "Perfect. Then just deliver Alaric back here and we will get the good one back."

Alaric grunts, "You will never see him again."

They walk out the door and Bella sighs. Her phone rings.

She smiles, 'Katherine?" Katherine laughs, "We got it! It took a little compulsion, but we have a new house."

Bella grins, "That's great news. Now we just have to decorate."
She hangs up the phone and turns back to everyone. Stefan and Damon were frowning while the others were just confused.

Damon steps forward, "You're moving?"

Bella nods, "I told Stefan this would be temporary. I finally found the perfect house."

Stefan gives her a cheerless look, "I thought you were just being polite. You know you are welcome here for as long as you want, right?"
Bella smiles at him, "I know and I don't want to stay here anymore. I need to be somewhere that is more my own."

Damon shakes his head, "You mean yours and Katherine.
Bella shrugs, "Katherine isn't wanted here. She needs to be somewhere that she can be happy for once."

Elena walks towards her and hugs her, "Are you sure you want to do this? Katherine isn't exactly reliable."

Bella nods, "I know. It's more mine than hers. She is my temporary roommate. Maybe one day it can be you. You have become someone I can rely on and I appreciate everything that you have done."

Elena grins, "I would love to live with you one day. After Katherine moves out of course."

Bella laughs, "Obviously. I'm going to go pack and then we can have that dinner."

Elena frowns, "It has to be now. There is a dance tonight that I want to go to."

Bella groans, "Oh yeah. I am supposed to chaperone that. Ok we will go to dinner then get ready for the dance. I will meet you at the Grill."

Bella was on her way from her new house to the Grill. She had wanted to make sure all the paperwork was settled. She was about to walk in when her phone beeped. She read the text from Alaric: Hey, I need you to meet me at the cemetery now. I don't remember a lot of what happened but I have a feeling something bad is about to happen.

She thinks about telling Elena but figures she could make it back and only be a little late. She changes directions and heads for the cemetery. She hoped that everything went smoothly with Rebekah. She wanted to put all of this behind them and find a solution that would get her brother back. She arrived at the cemetery and looked around. She didn't see Alaric anywhere.

She calls out, "Alaric? I'm here. Where are you?"

He steps out and she walks over. She starts to smile, but then she sees the look on his face and realizes too late that she had been tricked. He grabs her and injects her with vervain. She falls back into his arms and blacks out.

Elena sits at the Grill, waiting. She was starting to get worried. It wasn't like Bella to be this late. She tries her cell again, but it went straight to voicemail. She calls Stefan.

"I'm worried about, Bella. She was supposed to meet me at the Grill and she hasn't shown up or answered her phone."

When Stefan agrees to meet her there she hangs up. Five minutes later, Stefan and Damon walk in and sit at her table.

Damon frowns, "What do you think happened to her?"
Elena shrugs, "I don't know. She is in Mystic Falls. There are a number of things that could go wrong. All of them could be happening at the same time."
Stefan grabs her hand, comfortingly, "Calm down, Elena. We will find her and…"
He is interrupted by Elena's phone beeping. She looks at it: Elena, if you want Bella to live you will come to the cemetery tonight alone. You will make sure that all of the vampires get trapped at the dance and tell no one of this or Bella will not make it past midnight. Alaric.

Elena looks at her phone for a second and then fakes a smile.

She sighs with fake relief, "It is from Bella. The paperwork at her house lasted longer than she thought it would. She will meet us at the dance."

Damon and Stefan both smile with relief.

Stefan squeezes her hand, "I knew there would be an explanation."

Elena nods, "Let's get ready for the dance."

They arrive at the dance an hour later. Elena looks around and sees that Caroline and Tyler had arrived and were past the perimeter so they wouldn't be able to get out. She watches as Damon and Stefan do the same. When she sees Klaus she frowns.

"What are you doing here?"
Klaus glares, "I was told to be here. Something about information that I needed."

Elena looks at the three of them, "I'm so sorry. I had no choice."

She runs out of the perimeter and towards her car. They all try to go after her but run into an invisible barrier.

Damon growls, "What the hell?"

Klaus snarls, "You two did this! You tricked me!"

Damon spins towards him, "If we wanted to trap you we wouldn't have trapped ourselves too!"

Bonnie runs over, "Why can't we get out?"
Stefan frowns, "You can't get out either?"

Bonnie shakes her head, "No. There is like some invisible barrier. There is energy to it. A witch who is very powerful set it up."

Klaus rolls his eyes, "It's my mother."

Bella slowly opens her eyes and looks around. She sees Alaric with some short haired blonde woman. She tries to move her hands but they are tied behind her back. It took her a minute to feel them burning. She figured they were covered with vervain. She slowly sits up and winces.

Alaric turns towards her and smiles, "Look who finally decided to wake up."

He walks over to her and lifts his hand. She sees the stake and tries to move away, but she still felt the effects of the vervain that was injected into her system. He stakes her in the chest next to her heart. She felt the wood scrape her heart. She cries out and struggles to breath.

Alaric hunches down, "Be careful. If you move the wrong way, you die."

Elena walks in frowning, "Alaric? What are you doing? That is your sister."

The Blonde walks over, "Hello, Elena."

Elena gasps, "Esther. What do you want?"
Esther smiles, "The same thing that I have always wanted. For my mistake to be corrected. Vampires are an abomination that need to be taken care of. What I did to my children was unnatural. They have wreaked havoc on this world for long enough."

Elena's eyes widen, "What do you need with me?"

Esther smiles briefly, "I need your blood to complete the ritual."

Elena frowns, confused, "Ritual?"

Alaric grins, "I am going to be the ultimate vampire hunter and in order to do that I have to be a vampire just like them."

Esther starts the ritual and takes out the white oak stake, "I can make this indestructible with your ring."

She starts chanting in Latin and they watch as the two elements combine. Bella twitches and the stake grazes her heart more. She cries out in pain and Elena runs over to her and reaches for the stake.

Bella shakes her head, "Don't. It is too close to my heart. If you pull it out wrong I could die."

Elena nods and sits next to her. Bella winces and gasps as the stake moves again. Elena grabs her hand and wait. Esther walks over and cuts Elena's hand. A few drops of blood fall on the knife and Esther finishes the ritual. She hands the concoction to Alaric and he drinks it. Elena and Bonnie both gasp when Esther stabs Alaric with the white oak stake. Bella sobs and Elena hugs her carefully.

Esther walks towards them, "Don't worry Elena everything will be better without vampires in the world. As for you Bella, I'm afraid your time is up."

Before she could kill Bella, Alaric stabs her from behind.

Bonnie jumps up, "The energy is gone. We can get out. We have to find Elena and Bella.

Klaus frowns, "Speak for yourselves. I have other concerns."

Stefan's phone rings, "its Elena." He puts it on speaker phone, "Hello."
They here Elena yelling, "Be careful. You do that wrong and she dies. Um, oh, hello. So Esther is dead and so is Alaric kind of." They hear Bella scream in the background, "Alaric! I told you to be careful."

Stefan frowns, "I thought you said Alaric was dead. And what happened to Bella?"
Elena sighs, "Dark Alaric stabbed her in the chest with a stake. Now good Alaric, who is in transition, is trying to pull it out without it scraping her heart any more than it already has. She is in bad shape right now."

Damon steps forward, "Where are you?"

Bella was still crying, though the stake had been successfully pulled out. Her and Alaric were sitting on the floor hugging.

She sniffled, "You can't die Alaric. You are the only family I really have"

Alaric hugs her closer, "I know, but I can't turn into a vampire. I will be the crazy Alaric."

Elena sits on the other side of Alaric and lays her head on his shoulder. He puts his other arm around her shoulder and they all sit there silently crying. Damon, Stefan, Bonnie and Jeremy run in and stop in front of the three, morose in their eyes.