A/N: Sorry for the delay everyone, I hit a bad patch of writers block, but tonight I was able to finally write again. There is a heavy theme in this chapter, as ugly and painful as it was to initiate it, I saw a light at the end of the tunnel which really made this darkest of scenes, so beautiful. I hope you guys can understand it.

RATED M for mature.

"And so, Judas revealed himself to the one who trusted him most…"

Chapter 34~ The Truth Shall Set you Free

Before the deranged witch could consume the liquid death, Klaus quickly swiped it out of her hand and threw it to the ground, crushing the glass vial with the heel of his shoe.

She screamed, but it wasn't her screaming voice, it was Cassandra's.

Klaus grabbed "Cassandra's doppelganger", (named Jade) by the arm and stared into her blue eyes as his pupils dilated and compelled her.

"You will shut up and not scream or talk!"

But she only laughed in his face. "Your compulsion doesn't work on me!" She sneered at him with a smug smile.

Klaus couldn't believe it, in a fit of rage he pulled her and lifted her body over his shoulder, disappearing from the alleyway at vampire speed leaving Kol, Elijah and Elena standing in the darkness.

"Kol, take Elena home." Elijah ordered before he vanished and went after his raging brother. He didn't want Klaus to do anything that would lead to Elena's death.

"Wait, which home?" The young Mikaelson asked, but it was too late, Elijah was gone.

He sighed and took Elena's hand. "Come along darling, I guess I'm taking you to Nik's place."

~oOo~

Elijah had just caught up to his brother just in time before Klaus entered a taxi.

"Niklaus where are you going?" He asked.

"Let go of me! Put me down!" Jade pounded her fists on the Hybrid's back.

"I'm going to call the police!" The taxi driver was an old man with an Indian accent. He pulled out his cellphone and was about to dial, when Elijah suddenly appeared in front of his passenger window. The Original opened the cab driver's door with super vampire strength, breaking the lock mechanism, and compelled the man.

"Give me your phone."

He did as he was told.

"Do not speak. Just do as I tell you. When I get inside your car, you will drive us to Broadway and 5th, when we leave your vehicle, you will drive away and forget this entire conversation. Do you understand?"

"Yes." The man replied, zombielike.

Klaus was already in the back seat with Jade, clasping his hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream. But she was like a rabid wild animal with at the moment. It was heartbreaking that the unhinged, unstable witch had assumed Cassandra's identity and face.

Elijah quickly appeared inside the front passenger seat and shut the door.

"Drive to that address. Now." He commanded.

The vehicle pulled away and Jade was not settling down. She kept biting into Klaus's palm and slapping at his face. Elijah turned around in a panic, while the driver kept his eyes on the road as if nothing was happening.

"I need to asphyxiate her!" Klaus roared in anger, as he wrapped his arms around her neck in a chokehold and began to squeeze.

"Niklaus no! You might kill her!"

But the Hybrid didn't stop, he had to put that bitch down, even if it meant for a short, temporary time. Jade tried to slap away his arms, but soon her face started turning purple and her attempts slowed down instantly.

"Stop! Niklaus!"

Jade's new fragile body went limp. Klaus released her and Elijah immediately grabbed her wrist, praying that there would be a pulse.

"She's still alive for fuck's sake!" He growled in contempt.

Elijah was relieved when he felt a faint rhythm of blood slowly pumping into her veins.

"You should not have done that. You could have killed her."

"I knew what I was doing." He countered back, while still holding onto Jade. He was disgusted at the core, but he had no choice but to keep her locked in his arms, just in case she became conscious anytime soon.

Elijah felt his phone vibrate. He quickly checked it.

"Kol has arrived at your penthouse with Elena."

"Good."

There was a moment of silence between them. Klaus sighed in frustration. "How the bloody fuck did this happen?" He cursed out loud.

There was physical evidence of how it all happened. Jade was wearing that piece of evidence inside her silver bangle that was clasped around her wrist. She had woven Cassandra's hair into a leather wristband and attached the custom made jewelry inside of her bangle to hide it. All Klaus had to do was take it off, and inspect it.

There was so much going through Elijah's mind, it was like midday NYC traffic; chaotic.

What if she talks? What if Klaus finds out what I did? She has no reason not to tell him, I can't kill her! He knew he was trapped like a King in a checkmate. Making a deal with the crazy witch had sealed his fate to becoming discovered. She was going to reveal all his playing cards. All these months Elijah had been carefully calculating Elena's escape on the night of the ball, and now it would all be destroyed. There was no way to cover his tracks. But, if she had no evidence, it would be his word against hers, and after all that Jade had done, Elijah knew he had more credibility than her, Klaus trusted him. He didn't trust Jade.

~oOo~

Fortunately, Jade remained passed out all through the car ride and on the way up to Klaus's place. Both brothers found Elena and Kol waiting in the living room when they walked inside. Klaus had suspended Jade's body over his shoulder with her arms dangling and swaying side to side as he walked towards a chair and sat her down on it.

One of his hybrids brought him some rope and he swiftly tied up her hands, arms, ankles and taped her mouth shut.

All four of them stared at the blonde haired beauty that sat, with her head down, unconscious in the chair.

Elena didn't dare to speak. She was concerned and still in shock.

"What are we going to do?" Klaus broke the silence. "The bitch needs to be on suicide watch." He felt no compassion for her; he just wanted to protect his doppelganger.

Elijah agreed. Jade was dangerous, and a real life threat to Elena.

"We can't afford to allow her to escape." The Hybrid looked at his brothers.

"-Of course not. The repercussions would be detrimental." Elijah added, in a very serious tone.

"She has no powers, but she can't be compelled." Klaus paced back and forth, trying his best to come up with a solution. But he was more upset than anything.

"Lock her up in a padded cell." Kol suggested, while he moved in closer towards Cassandra's clone.

"This is no time for jokes and games." Elijah's voice was stern.

"I wasn't joking." Kol looked back at his brother and kneeled down to get an up close and personal look at the new inhabitant of Cassandra's body.

"Don't touch her! Stay away from her!" Klaus erupted in anger, grabbing Kol by the shoulder and pulling him back with full forced strength. The Original felt his body hit the wall, knocking a lamp over in midair, before he fell to the ground and groaned.

Elena flinched in fear at Klaus's violent outburst.

"Niklaus, I urge you to control your temper." Elijah said through gritted teeth.

"Yeah…what he said." Kol stood up and cracked his neck a few times.

Klaus shut his eyes and silently counted to ten. He didn't mean for that to happen.

"Maybe we should all just sit down and talk about this…"Elena offered. She wanted to calm the situation.

Elijah pulled out his cellphone and began to dial a number.

"Who are you calling?" Klaus asked.

"Jonas—" He went straight to voicemail and left the warlock a message, letting him know that he needed to see him as soon as possible and required his assistance.

Jade's eyes fluttered open as she slowly tilted her head up. She had a horrible migraine and her surroundings were a complete blur for the first 10 seconds of consciousness.

"She's waking up!" Kol sounded excited.

Klaus stood up, feeling immediately on edge again and stood in front of Jade.

She blinked and looked up at the Hybrid that towered over her, but he did not greet her with warmth or love. His eyes were cold, dead, and piercing right through her with contemptuous, hate and disgust. She wanted to cry.

Klaus ripped the tape off her mouth with no mercy and she cried out in pain. All three Originals and Elena watched in silence, wondering what was going to happen next.

"Don't look at me like that! I gave you what you always wanted! I gave you the impossible!" She cried out as tears filled her eyes.

It was unbelievably hard for Klaus to look at her like this. He had to keep reminding himself that it was Jade behind that beautiful face and not Cassandra. It was a mask.

"You lying whore! How did you do this!? Huh? Answer me!"

Elena had never seen Klaus get so angry before, not like this. She was even afraid of him.

"Kol, take Elena to another room." Elijah said.

Klaus pulled his eyes away from Jade and turned around. "No. She stays here." He looked at Kol and waited for him to nod before he faced Jade again.

"It's not too late my love, please, I'm sorry for what I did earlier. I was upset, you hurt me, I wasn't thinking. Please understand…" Jade began to plead. She was seriously like a bipolar person.

Klaus raised his hand and wanted to slap her across the face, but he couldn't. He just couldn't. It was Cassandra's face.

Elena felt a sudden tug at her heart strings. Klaus had slapped her across the face once before, how could he control himself now and not then? Especially since it was Jade on the receiving end.

Because he doesn't really love you, Elijah does. Her conscience answered.

"Elena luv, come to me." Klaus motioned her over to him, while keeping his eyes on the witch who was bound to the chair.

Elena did as she was told and walked over to him. She stood next to Klaus and looked up into his face.

He smiled darkly at Jade then turned his gaze on Elena, pulling her into his body and kissing her on the mouth, slow and sensually. Elena couldn't control her body's impulses as her arms wrapped around the Hybrid's neck, and her lips moved in perfect harmony with his.

Elijah looked away in pain and Jade just ended up screaming like a mad woman again.

"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh! You bitch! Don't touch him! He's mine! I will kill you!"

Klaus finally released Elena from their kiss, and then looked at Jade who was almost foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog.

"I never loved you. I never loved you then, and I will never love you now. You're a dumb fool Jade. I will discover a way to dispose of you once and for all, and when I do, I will mark that date down on my calendar, and celebrate it every year like a birthday for the rest of my immortal existence."

Elena shuddered.

"Gag her." Klaus looked at Kol, knowing that it would give him great pleasure to follow through on such a task.

"Your little doppelganger is not as innocent as you think! She's been sleeping with your brother!" She hatefully spat the words, watching Klaus's reaction. But all he did was laugh in her face.

"Your web of lies are effortlessly wasted my little black widow, you're caught in your own web this time." He leaned down toward Jade, his face only inches away from hers.

Elena was half panicking.

"You want to know how I was able to become like her? Ask your brother! Elijah was the one who gave me what I needed; a lock of Cassandra's hair..."

"You're lying." Klaus stood up and folded his arms against his chest.

Elijah was desperately trying to think of a way out of this, but there simply was no way out.

"Take off my bangle and open it!" The witch was despairing to reveal the truth.

Klaus sighed and rolled his eyes, as he reached for the silver bangle around her wrist.

"Klaus stop! It could be a trap!" Elena finally found her voice.

"Relax luv, nothing is going to happen." He unfastened the bangle from the witch's wrist and opened it, revealing the real "charm" bracelet inside.

Klaus scoffed at first, shaking his head, preparing to throw it away, when he stopped and noticed a blue ribbon that was braided into the leather braids…and once he studied it more carefully, he recognized a lock of blond hair woven with the ribbon as well.

"See! I'm not lying! Elijah gave it to me!"

"She's lying!" The Original who was being accused was suddenly at his brother's side, maintaining a perfect poker face. "Niklaus, every word that comes out of her mouth is a lie." Elijah so badly wished he could decapitate her right there on the spot. But two things were preventing him from doing so; 1. Elena was present. 2. If he did, Elena would die.

Klaus glared at Jade and rocked her chair back and forth while he yelled at her. "You think you can destroy me!? You can't! You are a lying slut! That's what you are! I will gag you myself!"

"He came to me weeks ago and we made a deal! Cassandra's hair in exchange for Elena being kept immune to the side effects of the marking ritual! That's why I flipped out that night! Something in my spell went wrong! He didn't want her to develop feelings for you, because he loves her! They love each other! He's been planning an escape to take her away from you! They both have double crossed you!" She couldn't get her words out fast enough.

"Niklaus, she lies." Elijah was distressed, but he didn't show it on his face. He had to remain calm to convince his brother.

Kol watched everything as if he were a spectator at a football game, except this was much more entertaining.

"Why don't you tell him Elena? Hmm? You're supposed to be the sweet and innocent one! Elijah risked all for you, why don't you come clean with the truth and confess!" Jade turned her hateful gaze on the shaking doppelganger.

"I…"her voice cracked.

No, no! Elena, do not reveal anything! Elijah pleaded with her, praying to God that she would understand his silent signals.

Elena couldn't handle it anymore. She couldn't handle the secrecy, the feelings for Klaus, her love for Elijah, her inevitable fate as the Hybrid's wife to be. She was tired of putting her hope and faith in all the promises and failed plans that fell through and didn't happen.

She took a deep breath and looked at Klaus, preparing herself for whatever would come afterward. "It's true. Everything she said, it's true. I'm in love with Elijah and I have been since he brought me here months ago."

Silence fell in the room. Elijah held his breath, and braced himself for a full on fight with his hybrid brother, but Klaus didn't move, he didn't even flinch.

Kol smiled to himself. He knew it all along.

Jade began to burst out laughing in Cassandra's high giggling voice. It sounded terribly disturbing to Klaus, but he ignored the mad woman's laughter and just stared into Elena's eyes. Was this some sort of trickery? Perhaps Jade still had her magic and was possessing Elena. But there was nothing but honesty in her rich mahogany eyes that began to spill tears.

That door that he had willingly unchained and opened for Elena, began to slowly bolt shut and she felt it. He was closing his heart and turning off his emotions.

"Nik please don't..." Elena cried and grabbed his hand, feeling genuinely heart broken for hurting the Hybrid with the truth. But he pulled his hand away and grabbed Jade by the throat, lifting her up into the air while she was still strapped in her chair. Her laughter immediately stopped as she began to choke in his tight grasp.

"I will kill you. This doesn't change your death sentence."

The witch was teetering between life and death, when Klaus suddenly released his clutch and let her drop down to the floor, the legs of the chair thudded loudly when they hit the ground. Jade almost fell over but managed to balance herself.

The angry Hybrid turned around and looked at his brother. He had betrayed him.

"And so, Judas revealed himself to the one who trusted him most…"

"Klaus please don't hurt him." Elena begged and grabbed his arm again.

But she wasn't strong enough to hold him back; he had already escaped from her reach and wrapped his hand around Elijah's throat, pushing him against the wall.

"I should dagger you for this Elijah! Death is much too easy for you, no…I want you to suffer for years in your stuffy old coffin, and when I un-dagger you, it will be when Elena has given me my first child. I will hold that child above your open casket when you wake, and once you have set your eyes on your first niece or nephew, I will dagger you again, until another year shall pass in which I will repeat this morbid little ritual until I can no longer impregnate Elena!"

Kol glowered at his older brother. This was too big of a trigger. He wouldn't allow Klaus to dagger Elijah. He moved at vampire speed and quickly intervened, throwing himself in between the brawling brothers, pushing the hybrid away from Elijah.

"We need to get you out of here."

"But Elena—"

"He won't harm or dagger Elena! Come on!"

Klaus was already on his feet and was ready to attack again, when suddenly both his brothers disappeared out the door.

Elijah knew he would be no use to Elena if he ended up daggered in a coffin. He had to stay alive.

~oOo~

Klaus growled in rage and frustration. He was feeling so much at once, hurt, betrayal, anger, jealousy and heart break. It was a tidal wave of emotions.

"Please don't hurt him Klaus…" Elena wiped her tears away and approached the Hybrid again.

He quickly summoned his hybrids over and ordered them to take Jade away to a safe house where she would be locked up and shackled until he figured out what to do with her. One of his hybrids injected the witch with a sedative and taped up her mouth before they removed her from the penthouse.

It was just Klaus and Elena at home now, one very angry hybrid and a shaking fearful doppelganger.

"Nik…I'm so sorry—"

"Don't call me that." He cut her off and walked over to her like a hungry wild animal stalking its prey. The fear in her eyes aroused him.

"Klaus please…" Elena slowly backed away. But he sped right in front of her and tossed her over his shoulder, disappearing through the hallways at vampire speed until they were in his bedroom. Elena felt her body hit the mattress hard, as he threw her onto the bed. When she brushed the hair out of her face she saw that Klaus had already taken his shirt off and was unbuckling his belt. She knew where this was headed and Elena was frantic in fear.

"Klaus please no! Not like this please!"

"Shut up Elena!" He abandoned his belt for a moment and leaned over her, tearing her dress in two with both hands. Elena gasped and then screamed.

He looked down at her almost naked body; she was wearing a strapless white bra and white lace panties.

"You're going to be my wife anyway; I might as well take what is mine!" He growled and assaulted her lips aggressively with his mouth.

I will take you! I will have you! It was all he could think about as he parted Elena's legs and grabbed both sides of her panties. He withdrew from her lips, and was about to aggressively pull them down when Elena began to sob and cry out loud. He was hurting her and it was visible on her face, to see just how badly he was about to traumatize her.

They had shared blood with one another, the bond that was created in the marking ritual enabled Elena to feel and understand his emotions and vice versa. The Hybrid had tried to turn off his humanity but he couldn't turn off the pain, and traumatizing fear that he was feeling through Elena at that moment. Her cries were breaking his heart and he backed away from her body immediately, sobering up and realizing the consequences of what he was about to do.

"No, no, no, no, no…" He breathed repeatedly, hardly believing the darkness that had overcome him moments ago.

Elena curled her body in a fetal position on the bed and began to cry uncontrollably.

"Please…d..don't… h..hurt me, p..please d..don't hurt m..me…." She stuttered in between her chocked up cries.

The Hybrid's hands were trembling as he pulled his shirt back on and zipped up his trousers. Tears began to streak down his face and he hatefully wiped them away before he grabbed a blanket from the closet and walked back towards the bed. Elena was paralysed, unmoving in the same position, with her head buried in between her knees and unable to stop her tears from flowing.

She tensed up when she felt the weight of his body move in next to her.

"P..pl…plea…please…Kl…klaus…." She stammered as the warmth of the blanket enveloped her entire body.

Klaus had covered her body like a cocoon, providing the beautiful butterfly the safety that she needed to feel. He didn't cover himself with the blanket, but he spooned her, and held her close in his arms. They both laid there and cried.

"I'm so sorry. Forgive me, forgive me please Elena. Please don't cry. It breaks my heart. I can't stand it." He whispered into her hair, kissing her head affectionately, while he stifled his own tears.

Minutes passed and she slowly began to calm down, moving her hand over Klaus's hand and gently squeezing it.

She just suffered the most terrifying experience that night and witnessed the Hybrid's biggest act of love at the same time. He stopped. He covered her. He pushed back his demon and cried with her, bearing his broken soul, as if she were his salvation. An angel covered in a blanket of white.

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