Chapter Nine Part Five: A Way To Save Them All

A/N: I apologize for not updating for a while. This was taking me forever to write. But anyway here is the last part of Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten as you know will be about curing Damon's werewolf bite. And no chapter ten will not be the end of this book. Like I said at the end of book one, The Mikaelsons will be in this book. There are many more chapters to come. There also maybe a cover change after the next chapter, I don't yet. Guess we'll just have to see. Hope you enjoy the final part of Chapter Nine(=

Previously

"He should have used me. Why didn't he use me?" Damon asked.

"He couldn't." Katherine told him. "Damon, he said you were as good as dead." She told him.

"What does that even mean?" Damon asked her.

"What does it mean? What is this Damon?" She asked, holding his arm.

"It's a werewolf bite." Damon said as soon as he realized what it was.

"So that's what a werewolf bite looks like." Katherine said.

"Yep." Damon replied.

"It's not that bad." Katherine said.

"It will be." Damon told her.

"So that's it? You're just gonna die?" Katherine asked him.

"Well, that know anything about a cure?" He asked her.

Katherine shook her head. She honestly felt bad for him. She and Damon may not, well, like each other but he doesn't deserve this.

"Me either." Damon said interrupted her thoughts.

"A hundred and forty-five years and no last goodbye?" Katherine asked as Damon put his jacket on.

"You don't get a goodbye." Damon told her turning around, his back toward her.

"Don't." Katherine vamp speed in front of him. "Don't leave mad." She told him.

"Us ending up on good terms is not exactly on my bucket list, Katherine." Damon told her.

"Klaus made me call Jenna to lure her out. There was nothing I could do. I didn't have a choice." Katherine told him.

"That's why Stefan gave you vervain. So you had a choice." Damon told her.

"It was her or me. I chose her." Katherine told him.

"We helped you. Now when Klaus dies, you're gonna walk out without a scratch and Elena's aunt dies." Damon told her. "Somehow you're the only one that wins. How'd that happen?" He asked her.

"I didn't let love get in the way." Katherine told him.

"Enjoy an eternity alone, Katherine." Damon told her before walking past her.

"What are you gonna do?" Katherine asked, turning to face him.

"I'm gonna offer myself as a replacement to Klaus." Damon turned to face her.

"He won't take you. He saw your bite, he said that your blood is impure." She told him. "I'm sorry Damon but Jenna's dead. There's nothing you can do about it."

"So what, that makes you their biological mother?" Jenna asked Alison after she explained everything to her.

"Yeah, I guess so." Alison responded.

"Jenna." They heard.

They saw Elena approached them with Greta. Greta went over to the Quadruplets. She took out a knife.

"What the hell are you doing?" Alison asked as she went over to them.

Before she could reach them something stopped her from getting any closer.

"What? What did you do?" Alison asked.

"The doppelganger here had offered herself up in exchange for the quadruplets. Klaus accepted but I still need their blood for the ritual." Greta responded as she poked into Xander's small hand first before she continued the same action with the other three.

"Stop you're hurting them." Alison yelled as they cried. "It's going to be okay. I'm right here. I'm right here." She told them as they continue to cry.

"The sacrifice is completed in stages as the full moon sets. First the werewolf is killed, then the vampire and finally the doppelganger." Elijah told them. "Once Elena dies the curse will be broken. Klaus will become a hybrid." He added.

"So when do we attack?" Alaric asked.

"Elena's death will activate his dormant werewolf side. He'll be vulnerable during his transformation. That's when Bonnie comes in." Elijah replied.

"You're sure Bonnie will survive this?" Stefan asked him.

"If she can deliver him to the brink of death, I'll finish the job myself." Elijah told them before Stefan's phone rang.

"Damon." Stefan answered walking away from the three men.

"You're not gonna like what I'm about to say." Damon told him.

"Cut to the chase. Is the sacrifice happening or not?" Stefan asked.

"It's happening. I tried to stop it but it got complicated." Damon told him.

"We're sticking with the original plan. We're meeting Bonnie right now." Stefan told his brother.

"He's got Jenna, Stefan." Damon told him.

"What?" Stefan asked. "He got Katherine to lure her out of the house." Damon told him. "He's going to use her as the vampire in the ritual." He added.

"Oh my god." Stefan said before looking back at Ric.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Alaric asked.

"Come on, get in here." Caroline told Matt as they went into the Lockwood mansion.

After Matt went in, Caroline locked the door.

"Do you see anything?" She asked as Matt looked out the window.

"We're not safe here." Matt told her. "If that thing wants in, it's getting in." Matt puts the wooden bullets into the rifle.

"How did you even know what I was?" Caroline asked him. "I compelled you to forget." She told him.

"I was on vervain." He told her. "I faked forgetting so I could spy on you." He admitted. "It was your mom's idea." He told her.

"My mom's idea? She knew this whole time?" She asked before there was a knock on the door.

"Don't, there's a lady with a baby stroller." Matt told her.

"Baby stroller? Oh my god." Caroline realized who it was.

Caroline opened the door to see Alison with the quadruplets.

"Oh my god what happened? What happened to their hands?" Caroline asked as she let them in before carrying Florence.

"Elena offered herself up but Klaus still needed their blood for the ritual. I couldn't stop it. His witch cast a barrier spell or something." Alison told her, closing the door behind her. "They were crying and I couldn't do anything." She nearly cried.

"Hey, hey, it's ok. They're ok. They're here and safe. Thanks to you." Caroline told her.

"I heard you." Damon said as he went to get the door.

Before he could get to the door, he stumbled. He looked at the werewolf bite, which was spreading. He heard a knock again.

"Wow." He said before getting the door. "Great. I was just thinking about getting a bite to eat." He said as he saw who was standing at his door.

"Elena hasn't returned any of my calls for days. I need to see her." John told him as he went in.

"You're a day late and a daughter short." Damon told him, closing the door behind him.

"What are you talking about?" John asked.

"Klaus has her." Damon told him. "Sacrifice goes down tonight." He added.

"What? I thought Klaus wanted the Quadruplets." John said.

"He did. But Elena offered herself up." Damon told him.

"I've got the moonstone." Klaus said. "I've spent 500 years looking for this." He said as he pulled the moonstone out of his pocket and handing it to Greta.

"The moon has passed it's apex. Remember everything you need to do?" Greta asked.

"I remember." Klaus replied.

Greta threw the moonstone into the fire and it sparked. Jules continued to scream in pain.

"Everything I did...I was just trying to help Tyler." She groaned.

"Are you Jules?" Elena asked.

"I didn't want him to be alone." She told her.

Soon the fire around Jules disappeared. She ran to Klaus. He got on top of her and killed her. Jenna and Elena stared in shock and fear for what's going to happen to them next.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Jeremy asked as Ric came into view.

"Elijah and Stefan are upstairs. You mind if I have a second with Jeremy?" Ric asked Bonnie.

"Yeah, sure. Of course." Bonnie told him before she left the room.

"What's the matter? Jeremy asked.

"Jeremy, something's happened to Jenna." Alaric told him.

"What? Why did he take Jenna?" Bonnie asked.

"A punishment for meddling." Elijah told her.

"Klaus was gonna use Tyler and Caroline. Damon rescued them." Stefan told her.

"Then we need to go. Now. Before Jenna's been sacrificed. I can kill Klaus." Bonnie told him.

"Bonnie, if you use that much power, you'll be dead. We've already been through this. It's not an option." Stefan told her.

"Neither is letting Jenna die." Bonnie told him.

"Stefan would agree with you." Elijah told her as Stefan looked back to him.

"We're gonna offer him another vampire." Stefan told her. "One that he'll want." He said stepping toward her. "Me." He told her.

"Give me your jacket." Caroline told Matt.

"What?" He asked.

"Your jacket, take it off." She told him.

Matt took his jacket off and handed it to Caroline, who opened the front door to see Tyler laying there. She wrapped him with Matt's jacket.

"Hey." She said as Tyler breathed heavily turning to face her. "Hey it's okay. It's okay." She told him before helping him get inside.

"Bonnie did a locator spell. They're at Stevens Quarry." Elijah told Stefan.

"I'll head over there, you'll follow Bonnie." Stefan told Elijah.

"Just as the moon hits its final phase. She's to stay hidden until then." Elijah said. "He cannot know she's alive."

Stefan nodded before heading off.

"You're very honorable." Elijah said making Stefan turn around to face him.

"Are you?" Stefan asked. "Because this whole plan is uh it's contingent upon your honor, Elijah." He told him.

"I won't fail you." Elijah assured him.

"Klaus is your brother. I know I've wanted to kill my brother a thousand times. I've never been able to." Stefan told him.

"Well, Klaus was not my only brother." Elijah told him. "I had siblings. Parents. I had a family. Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down one by one and he took them from me. He scattered them across the seas where their bodies could not be found." He explained.

"You want revenge." Stefan said.

"Sometimes there's honor in revenge, Stefan." Elijah told him. "I won't fail you." He reassured him.

"Please end this." Stefan pleaded before walking away.

"I've brought the Gilbert journals. I think I know the spell you're talking about." John told them bringing them a box full of Journals.

"Where's Damon?" Bonnie asked.

"Upstairs. Alaric wanted to talk to him." John told them.

"He did what?" Damon asked.

"He wasn't gonna let Jenna die." Alaric told him.

"We have a witch. She kills Klaus. No one has to die." Damon argued.

"Except for Bonnie." Alaric told him.

"God, damn it, Stefan." Damon punched a hole into a wall before groaning.

"Hey, are you okay?" Alaric asked his friend.

"I'm fine." Damon told him. "Well, that's my brother for you. Always cleaning up my messes." He said before walking away.

"Johnathan journaled story of a mother who called on Emily's services. The woman's baby was sick, dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child." John told Damon.

"Skip to the "save Elena" part." Damon told him.

"The child died, but the mother's life force flowed through her, restoring her to life." John said.

"We already know Elena's gonna come back to life. But she'll be a vampire." Jeremy said.

"Not if her soul remains intact." John told him.

"Her soul, really?" Damon asked. "You're gonna put your faith in some "act of God" mumbo jumbo?" Damon asked.

"No, we're gonna put our faith in your children." John told him.

"My children?" Damon asked. "What can my kids do? They're not even a year old." He told them.

"If we can bind Elena's and Jenna's lives to the Quadruplets, I can stop them from activating their vampirism, Elena's from becoming a vampire and Jenna from dying, even though she will still be a vampire." Bonnie told him.

"Won't they still be dead though?" Damon asked.

"No. Technically, your children can't die. Comes with being saviors." John told him.

"They'll be out for a couple hours. Once we're sure Stefan's blood is out of Elena's system, I'll unlink them and everything would be back to normal, or at least as normal as it gets around here." Bonnie told him. "So is that a yes, we can bind their lives to the Quadruplets?" She asked him.

"I've got to talk to Caroline about it." Damon said before walking away.

"You can hear them. You can hear anything. Just focus on them." Elena told her.

Jenna looked up to where Stefan and Klaus are at. She tried to focus on what they are saying.

"You don't need to kill Jenna. I'll take her place." Stefan told Klaus.

"Oh, I don't know. I rather appreciate the symmetry of three women, three goddesses sacrificed at the nature's altar" Klaus told him.

"Don't play games with me. You'll get what you want." Stefan told him.

"You're quite the hero, aren't you?" Klaus asked. "Yeah, I've heard about you." He told him.

"Just make the trade." Stefan told him. "Me for Jenna." He added.

"Oh my god." Jenna said.

"What? What are they saying?" Elena asked Jenna.

"He wants to take my place." Jenna told her.

"How's Tyler doing?" Matt asked.

"Sleeping." Caroline told him. "He should be better by morning. He just needs some rest." She added.

"Good." Matt said. "So this is your life now, huh?" He asked.

"Never a dull moment." She replied.

"You know, these last few days with you have been great, and fun and so Caroline." He told her as she went closer to him. "I thought that I might be able to get past this whole vampire thing." He told her.

"But you can." Caroline told him.

"I don't know if I can, Caroline." He told her. "I get it. This is your life now. But you know what my life is, Care?" He asked. "My life is an absentee mom. And a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes. But it's my life. And I think that I just wanna live it without all of this." He told her before walking away.

As he opened the door, Damon and Bonnie were standing there. Matt walked past him.

"You heard?" Caroline asked.

"All of it." Damon told her.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought you guys are trying to stop the ritual from happening." Caroline said.

"We are." Damon told her. "Are they here?" He asked her.

"Upstairs, sleeping." Caroline told him. "Why?" She asked.

"We need them to save Jenna and Elena." Damon told her.

"Well, who's it gonna be Elena?" Klaus asked her.

"No." Elena responded.

"Oh, don't worry. There's actually no choice." Klaus told them before vamp speeding behind Stefan and staking him. "I have other plans for your boyfriend. I want him alive." He told her. "But for now." He snapped Stefan's neck.

Elena gasped, as where Jenna was horrified.

"Whenever you're ready Greta." Klaus said.

Greta took the fire that was around Jenna away.

"No." Elena said.

"Your turn." Klaus said to Jenna.

"No, Jenna, no." Elena tried to go over the fire but it grew bigger.

"It's all right, Elena. I know what I have to do." Jenna told her before vamp speeding over to Greta and bit her.

Greta screamed. Klaus forced Jenna off of her. He stood behind, holding her close before biting into her, drinking her blood. After he was done, he let go of her body.

"Jenna no." Elena cried as she saw her aunt's lifeless body lying there.

Klaus watched the doppelganger cry her eyes out. For a second he felt remorse, sorry for what he did as he saw tears coming from the doppelganger. He shook that feeling off. He can't feel sorry for what he did. He had to do it.

Stefan woke up as Klaus went over to Elena. He went behind her, gripping her waist as he turned her head to the side for a clear view of her neck. As he extracted his fangs, Elena eyed Stefan. She looked at him while she felt Klaus's fangs dig into her skin. Tears fell from her eyes. Stefan stared in horror. He wanted to save his girlfriend but he couldn't. He's too weak and he can't reach the stake that was impelled into his back. Then Klaus let go of Elena, dropping her on the floor. Klaus is now fully a hybrid.

"I can feel it. It's happening" Klaus said looking up at the full moon as Bones starts breaking. "Yes, yes." Klaus screamed.

Out of nowhere everything sparked, Klaus couldn't feel it anymore. He turned to see the Bennett witch. How? She is dead. As he was weak and Greta stared at Bonnie, Damon discreetly went behind Greta and snapped her neck. Damon then went over to Elena and carried her bridal style. He went and laid her by Stefan. Damon then pulled out the stake that was in his brother's back.

"When you're all healed up, I need you to bring Jenna back to the witch's house." Damon told him.

"Why?" Stefan asked.

"Let's just say she's not actually dead dead." Damon told him.

Stefan still had a confused look on his face.

"I'll explain later." He told him before picking up Elena and vamp speeding away.

"Elijah?" Klaus asked.

"Hello, brother." Elijah greeted him before he impelled his hand into his chest. "In the name of our family, Niklaus." Elijah said as he gripped on his brother's heart.

"I didn't bury them at sea." Klaus groaned.

"What?" Elijah asked.

"Their bodies are safe." Klaus told him. "If you kill me, you'll never find them."

"Elijah. Don't listen to him" Stefan told him.

"Elijah, I can take you to them." Klaus told him. "I give you my word, brother." He added.

"Do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie told them.

"You'll die." Elijah told her.

"I don't care." Bonnie said through her teeth.

"Brother." Klaus said.

Elijah look down at his brother before turning back to Stefan and Bonnie.

"I'm sorry." Elijah told them.

"NO!" Stefan and Bonnie ran towards them but they disappeared.

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