The Sun and The Moon
Alex held the moonstone in the palm of her hands, it's weight felt heavier than it ever had before. She ran her thumbs across its surface and felt a shock of its power. The magic of the moon was attracted to the spellbound stone. Alex closed her eyes and allowed the magic to swirl around her. The new power she held within her was heightening everything, the pull of the moon, the charge of the stone, she could even feel the magic that was wound into the makeup of the vampires and witches around her. It was overwhelming, but it was giving her a rush she had never experienced before.
Holding up the stone a rush of power shot through her hands and the stone erupted in fire. She dropped the stone onto the altar, and the fire spread around it. Alex opened her eyes to glance at the grimoire and began to chant the spell to channel the moon's magic.
The sensation of the magic rushing down and disintegrating the stone felt like she was standing beneath a waterfall. The power was crashing down upon her, but it felt thrilling and refreshing.
Klaus' voice pulled her from the euphoric feeling of the spell, and she focused her eyes on him as he approached the werewolf. The werewolf had awoken and was now growling at Klaus. Alex could see, even from a distance, the fear in his eyes. The barrier around the wolf dropped, and he didn't hesitate to charge. Klaus caught the wolf by the throat and pinned him to the ground, he kicked and struggled against Klaus' grip but couldn't break it. Klaus shoved his hand into the werewolf's chest and ripped out his heart.
Klaus stood up from his kill and smiled as he examined the heart in his hand. He smirked. "One down, two to go." He carried the heart over to where Alex stood at the altar and held out the heart to her.
Alex took it from him and squeezed the blood from the heart on top of the moonstone and then dropped the heart on the ground. The moonstone flared as the first sacrifice was completed, the curse inside was beginning to crumble.
Alex glanced at Elena. Elena's eyes were glued on the body of the dead werewolf, her face was clenched in fear and tears were brimming her eyes. Alex wanted to run to her and stop all of it. To tell her once again how sorry she was, that they would find another way.
"I don't remember inviting them," said Klaus.
Alex turned away from Elena and saw Stefan and Damon coming towards them.
"James!" Alex yelled.
James cut off the boys path and trapped them.
"No! You can't do this!" yelled Damon.
"Elena, are you okay?" asked Stefan.
Klaus approached the brothers. He said, "For now, she is perfectly fine." Klaus frowned at them. "What are you doing here? Come to watch the girl you both love die?" His voice was teasing like he was talking about a high school crush and not murder.
"Let her go," said Stefan. "Please."
Klaus shook his head. "Why would I do that, mate? She came here of her own free will."
Both Stefan and Damon looked at Elena, shocked.
"Your lying," said Damon.
"Am I?" Challenged Klaus. He chuckled. "Why don't you ask Alexandra?"
Alex looked Stefan dead in the eye. Her magic still focused on challenging the moon, but she couldn't tear herself away from the sorrow and confusion in his eyes.
"Alex, why are you helping him?" Stefan asked.
She didn't have the words. How was she supposed to explain what they were doing when her plan had fallen apart. Klaus' curse would be broken, Elena would come back, and Alex would die in her stead, but Klaus would be free to kill whomever he saw fit next.
Alex turned away from him and looked at Elena. The brave face that her sister was trying to display was weak, but Alex knew that her sister trusted her. She had to find a way.
"She isn't one for conversation, is she?" said Klaus. "Oh well, if you will excuse me boys I have a vampire to sacrifice."
Alex watched him as he approached the vampire, he smiled and waited as the barrier around the female vampire dropped. Instead of attacking Klaus, like the wolf had done, the vampire ran past Klaus and straight at Alex. The vampire tried to grab her by Alex stuck out her hand. The vampire cried out from pain and fell to her knees.
A laugh fell from Klaus' lips. "Naughty vampire." He pulled a wooden stake out of his back pocket and grabbed the vampires arm. He flipped the vampire onto her back and smiled before plunging it into her heart. Klaus gathered blood from the vampire and passed it to Alex.
Pouring the vampire blood over the moonstone, once again it flared and broken down completely, the once smooth stone was nothing but liquid, and it was swirling together with the blood of the first two sacrifices.
Klaus smiled. He turned to Elena and said, "Your turn, love."
The circle around Elena went out, and both Stefan and Damon yelled at her to run. Alex waited and couldn't help but beg for her to run, but from the look in Elena's eyes, she knew that Elena wouldn't do that.
Klaus held out his hand for her and Elena took a deep breath before walking towards them. She ignored Klaus' hand and stepped up next to the altar beside Alex. Elena looked her dead in the eye and said, "I love you."
Alex nodded, and the tears she had been hoping to keep locked away spilt out. "I love you too. Remember what I told you."
Elena nodded.
Klaus stepped up beside Elena and pushed her hair out of the way. His eyes focused on her throat for a moment, and then he said, "Thank you, love."
Elena glared at him. "Go to hell."
Klaus smirked before biting down on her neck.
Stefan and Damon cried out, begging Alex to stop him. Alex couldn't tear her eyes away from Elena as Klaus drained her dry.
It only took a matter of seconds before Klaus dropped her to the ground. Elena laid at Alex's feet dead. The flames that burnt over the altar went out, and Klaus stepped away and looked up at the moon.
Alex dropped to her knees and pulled Elena into her lap. The tears fell from her eyes, and she sobbed. Alex knew that Elena would be okay, she would wake up. But they would never see each other again. Alex hated herself for putting Elena through this, no sister should ever do this. She couldn't let this all be for nothing, Klaus had to die.
Alex looked up at Klaus and rage shot through her. He had dropped to his knees, his body going through his first transition. She couldn't kill him, even with the magic of two witches in her she wasn't that strong. And she didn't know the spell for something like that either.
Desiccation was the only choice, but she didn't have the heart to stop. Her own was out of the question because it would mess with her binding spell with Elena. Alex felt hope surged as she remembered her fight with Renee earlier. Renee had grabbed Elijah and used a spell to desiccate him. She had been strong enough to stop his heart without needing the human heart to do it.
Alex didn't know if she could do it, but she wasn't not going to try it. Pushing Elena from her lap, she stood up and approached Klaus. She walked up behind him, and she heard him laugh.
He said, "Sweetheart, you have no idea what you have done."
Alex glared at him. "Yes, I do." She pulled what magic she could muster and threw it at him.
Klaus cried out and was tossed through the air. He landed on his back and groaned. "What are you doing?"
Alex stepped forward. "What needs to be done." She started chanting and pulling as much magic as she could muster. Everything she had she was pushing at Klaus, she needed to weaken him enough to touch him so that she could try it. She paused her chant and yelled, "James, Sarah." Both of them ran to her.
"Alex, what are you doing?" James asked.
"I think I can desiccate him, but I need you both to keep him down." Alex started her chant again.
"We got you," said Sarah. She turned to the Salvatore brothers and dropped the barrier holding them in place. Both Sarah and James started chanting the small spell and nodded when Klaus was being held down.
Alex approached him and glared down at him. "The all-powerful hybrid isn't so powerful after all." She knelt down in front of him.
"You can't kill me," he hissed.
Alex shrugged. "I might not be able to kill you, but I can put you down just like you did Elijah." Alex placed her hand on his chest and dug her fingernails into his skin. This time she didn't need a spell to stop a heart, all she needed was to reach for his own with her magic. It slid through his veins, and when it found his heart, it strangled it.
Klaus gasped and tried to struggle, but the blood in his body was drying up, turning him into nothing but a corpse. Black veins spread from his chest.
Alex felt herself weakening, she needed to make sure he was desiccated completely. She pulled everything she had, she was gasping for breath. It hurt to force it, her magic knew she was going beyond her limits, even with Nadia's magic mixed with her own.
The veins covered his skin, and any colour he had once had on his face turned white. His whole body dropped, and Alex cried out with relief as the power she had pushed into his heart, flowed back into her.
Alex fell to the ground and took a moment to try and catch her breath. Her heart was pounding in her chest, and her head was throbbing. Alex reached up and wiped away the blood that had dripped from her noes.
"You did it," said James. He knelt down beside her and helped her sit up.
"What did you do?" asked Sarah.
Alex took a breath and said, "I desiccated him."
"She starved him in seconds. His whole body is dried up, no blood means he can't function," explained James.
"So he isn't dead," said Sarah.
"No, but he can hear and see everything around him." Alex pushed herself to stand and looked to where she had left Elena.
Stefan was sitting on the ground with her in his arms. His face was buried into her shoulder.
"How long?" asked Alex. She looked at James.
James shrugged. "I don't know."
Alex stepped away from him and headed towards Stefan and Elena. She didn't know how long it would take for the spell to bring Elena back, but she couldn't let Stefan suffer, he deserved to know.
When she had first met Stefan, she had hated him and everything that he was. The vampire who had yanked Elena into the supernatural world, but he was also the vampire who had saved her life. Without him, Alex would have mourned Elena a long time ago. And watching the two of them together, even in a short period she could see how much they loved one another and that Stefan would do anything to keep her safe. Even Damon was protective of her. He was defiantly the brother Alex disliked, but his feelings for Elena meant he would do whatever he could for her and knowing that he would be around to keep her safe meant that Alex was okay with him.
A hand wrapped around Alex's throat and squeezed. Alex gasped in shocked and glared as Damon stood in front of her.
"You let him kill her." His fingers tightened.
"Damon, stop it." Stefan appeared beside them and shoved Damon off Alex.
Alex stumbled and gasped for breath. "You moron, you know nothing." Alex glared at him.
"I know that you just let that fucker kill her. If you could stop him the whole time, why didn't you do it before he killed her." Damon stalked towards her, his finger pointed.
"I didn't even know I could do that. And besides, during his transition, he was weaker. It was part of the plan," snapped Alex.
"Your plan was to let Elena die?" asked Stefan.
Alex flinched. She closed her eyes and pushed past Damon. She walked over to Elena and sat down beside her. The pain of everything that had happened swelled up inside her, and a sob ripped itself from her chest.
"She will wake up," said Alex.
Stefan walked over and sat down beside her. "What do you mean?"
"Elena and I are linked by a spell. If one of us dies, then they will be brought back using the life force of the other." Alex looked down at Elena and pushed a stray hair out of her face.
"You mean, she will wake up and then you will…" Stefan's eyes widened in shock.
"I will die." Alex leant down and placed a kiss on her head. "Can you please take her home? I would be better if she wakes up in a familiar place."
Stefan nodded. "What about you?"
Alex took a shaky breath. "James will stay here with me until it happens. Then I will have him put Klaus somewhere safe for the rest of eternity."
Stefan nodded and stood up. He picked up Elena and gave Alex a look filled with regret. "Do you want me to tell her anything?" he asked.
Alex smiled, and another sob came out. She shook her head. "No, I think she will understand."
