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By the time they got there the werewolf, Jules was already gone. Rings of fire surrounded both Jenna and Elena. Klaus was just about to use Jenna when he noticed them.
In a flash, they were both on the ground next to Klaus.
"Let them go," Lexi said. "You know you'd rather kill me. It's been me from the beginning. Ever since I wouldn't sleep with you."
"Oh, those were the days. By the way, how's mum and dad?" he asked.
"We're not talking about them. Let Jenna go and use me."
"What, no? Lexi, that wasn't the deal. Take me Klaus. I tried to stop Elena from going with you. You're mad at me; you want your revenge on me." Stefan said.
"Leave Stefan alone. Come on, Klaus. You know you always wanted the pleasure of killing me. Now you can, just let Jenna go."
"You know what, I'm feeling rather generous today so how about we let Elena decide." Klaus looked to Elena. "
It was the world's more impossible choice. The Love of your life, your best friend who was like a big sister to you, or your Aunt who put her whole life on hold to take you in when your parents died.
"So, who is it going to be, Elena? Lexi, your big sister, Stefan, your loving boyfriend or your favorite little Aunt, Jenna."
"No!" Elena said strongly.
"Come now; we don't have time to waste. You must choose. Otherwise, I'll do it for you."
"I'm not picking."
"Klaus, this was not part of our deal!" Stefan said. "You want me, you have me, let Jenna go."
"Stefan, no," Elena said.
"Ah, so you'd rather I take your Aunt?"
"No, leave Jenna alone."
"So you want me to use Lexi?"
"No! I don't want you to use any of them. This was never part of our deal. I did everything that you said. I didn't turn myself into a vampire, I didn't run, please just let all of them go."
"You know I need a vampire, who shall I use instead?"
"Katherine! She betrayed you once, don't want revenge?"
"Not really, Katherine is quite fun to be around; I enjoy her company very much."
"Just stop touring her and make the switch," Stefan growled.
"I'll make the switch once Elena agrees to it unless of course she'd rather spare your life and kill Jenna."
"No!"
"All righty then, she has made her choice. You get into the ring of fire, Lexi."
"No….stop it! Please don't make me choose." Elena begged.
"Oh don't worry," Klaus smirked. "There really is no choice."
With that, he staked Stefan with his arm pinned behind his back and snapped his neck knocking him out.
Elena gasped. "No, Stefan! No"
Lexi growled and tried to stop, but Klaus snapped her neck.
"No! Lexi! No!"
Klaus just smiled. "Whenever you're ready Greta."
The fire around Jenna vanished.
"Your turn," Klaus smirked.
"No, Jenna, no!"
Jenna looks to Elena, "It's alright, Elena. I know what I have to do."
In a flash, Jenna was over by Greta and bit into her neck. She was only stopped when Klaus staked her. She falls onto the floor and looks to Elena. She looks scared to death.
"Just turn it off. Jenna. Turn it off. You won't be scared anymore." She whimpered, just hoping she'd do it.
Then Klaus staked her and killed her. Elena started to cry. "No! Jenna! No! Jenna! No!"
While Klaus was busy doing his thing, Elena noticed Stefan started to wake up. He looked at Jenna then to Elena. "I'm so sorry." He whispered
"Shhh," she whispered putting her finger to her lips. "Are they going to kill him?"
He nodded and them watched as Klaus walked over to them. He tried to get upup, but the stake in his back was weakening him so he couldn't.
"It's time." Klaus smiled.
The fire around Elena finally vanished. Elena felt like running. He didn't keep his part of the deal so why should she?"
She looked to Stefan and Lexi and sighed. If she left, he might kill them. She stood up and went over to the altar. He stood behind her and whispered in her ear a small thank you. She just cursed at him and then…it happens. His teeth sunk into her neck and she could feel herself growing weaker and weaker until finally, everything went black.
Stefan growled as he tried not to look at Elena's dead body. He looked over to Lexi who was starting to wake up. She groaned.
"Lexi, help me," Stefan whispered knowing Klaus was too distracted to hear him.
Slowly Lexi crawled over to Stefan and removed the stake from his back. Just as they were about to go toward Klaus she started to scream in pain.
They looked and saw Bonnie, Jones, and Luca.
"You're supposed to be dead!" he cried out.
Bonnie didn't speak she just continued the spell and walked toward him. Greta was about to try and stop her but then noticed her father and brother with her. She knew she'd never be able to stop them. It was useless to even to try.
Klaus continued to cry out in pain.
Lexi ran over and grabbed Elena and carried her over to Stefan.
"Let's get her home," Lexi said.
"No. I'm not leaving until he's dead," Stefan said.
"Neither am I," Lexi said.
Stefan took Elena and kissed her forehead. "I'm so sorry," he whispered.
They both stood by and watched as Bonnie, Jones, and Luca weakened Klaus. It was time to deliver the final blow to destroy him once and for all. Jones was about to do it. He was the oldest witch and had he most experience.
"Wait, Wait, if you kill me you'll never see Greta again." he choked out.
"You're lying. My daughter is up there, and she is alive, and as soon as your gone I will take her home." Jones said.
"No, please, you have to believe me. I compelled her."
"What?"
"I complied her if I die she has to die with me. If you kill me, you kill her. But if you let me live I can help you reunite with your daughter and live together peacefully."
"Jones no! Don't listen to him. He's lying. Any compulsion she's under will break the second he dies." Lexi said.
"Dad, please," Greta said. "Don't. Don't kill me."
Jones sighed and looked to Luca and Greta and then back to Klaus.
"I meant what I said in my letter. I'll compel her to not remember any of this. Please."
Jones nodded. "Let's go, Luca."
"No!" Lexi, Bonnie, and Stefan shouted.
Bonnie instantly started trying to use her power again. It was a lot harder by herself.
"Stop her or I kill Greta!" Klaus growled out in pain.
"You won't! Then he'll kill you. You know it." Lexi said.
"I didn't think twice about killing your parents, I won't think twice before I kill her!"
Suddenly Bonnie felt her powers getting weaker and weaker. She looked to Jones and Luca who weren't doing anything. "No." she whispered knowing it was Greta.
Suddenly a flash went by them all and Damon was right behind Greta.
"Damon no!" Stefan shouted.
But it was too late in a flash Damon snapped her neck, and she was gone. Then in another flash, he killed Jones and Luca.
"No!" Lexi cried out. Sure they had betrayed them, but Jones had her been her friend since before her change.
Bonnie had fought all she could before she dropped to the ground, weak, tired, and powerless. She tried to stand up, but Lexi and Stefan ran over to her. "Stop, it's over. There is nothing we can do. Elena already lost Jenna. She can't lose you too."
Bonnie sighed and nodded. They all looked around, and Klaus was gone.
"I told you we should have just let Bonnie take care of it," Damon said. "Now who is going to tell Elena that the man who murdered her Aunt is still alive?"
"Who is going to tell her that the man who changed her is still alive?" Lexi bit back. Then she looked to Stefan. "Let's get her home."
They all took off running to make it home. Jenna was gone, Elena was going to be a vampire, and Klaus was now a hybrid. It was all for nothing.
When Elena woke up again, she looked around gasping. She saw Stefan and Lexi. Jeremy and Alaric were standing in the doorway, and she was laying on some old couch.
"How do you feel?" Stefan asked.
She waited for a moment, she waited for some kind of burning, or some urge to drink from Jeremy but there was none.
"I feel fine." She answered. "I feel fine."
Everyone around her sighed in relief.
"Where is Jenna?" she asked.
She knew, but a part of still had to ask. Lexi and Stefan just looked at her, and she sighed. She nodded letting them know she understood what they were saying. She suddenly heard a rustle of leaves from outside. She looked up and saw John laying there on the ground.
"John!" she gasped.
She tried to get up, but Stefan and Lexi held her back.
"Elena, stop, it's ok there is nothing you can do. He's gone." Stefan said.
"What happen?" she choked out.
"Bonnie did a spell, it bonded his life source with yours but in return, he had to die," Damon answered coming to stand next to Lexi and Stefan.
"So, I lost not only Jenna but now John too? Why does everyone I love have to keep dying?"
She turned away from everyone and buried her face in the cushion.
Damon touched her shoulder, but she shrugged it off. "Elena…"
"No!" she yelled looking at him with tears streaming down her cheeks. "This is all your fault! John was the ONLY parent I had left! It's because you fed me your blood and now John's dead! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE DAMON! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed as she cried hysterically. Stefan pulled her into his arms and hugged her close as she cried. Lexi rubbed her back. Damon sighed and left the room.
The next morning, everyone was getting ready for the funeral. Stefan knew Elena would rather do it sooner rather than later. He was waiting for her downstairs as she got dressed upstairs. Damon walked into the room.
"Are we all set?" Stefan asked him.
Damon nodded softly. "Yeah. Plenty of room in the Gilbert family plot, and I compelled two of the grave diggers to do the dirty work. How's she doing?
Stefan just sighed. "She lost the only parents she had. She's in shock."
"Is there anything we can do?"
"Jeremy is up there now, but I don't think we can do much."
Jeremy came downstairs and into the room.
"How is she?" Stefan asked.
"She's trying to be brave, but I can see it. She's really scared."
Stefan sighed. "Does she need anything?"
"She just asked for me to send you up."
Without questions, Stefan super sped up the stairs and into Elena's room. She was sitting on the bench by her window reading John's letter to her.
"Elena…"
She looked at him and then back to the letter. She shook her head. "We were finally getting to a good place. We were finally starting to get along."
"I know, Baby, I'm sorry."
He went over and knelt down beside her. He gently rubbed her knee.
She took his hand from her knee and just held it. He wrapped his fingers around her hand and squeezed it gently.
"I don't know if I can do this." She whispered softly, so softly no human would have been able to hear it
"I'll be with you the entire time. I'll stay by your side until you tell me it's ok for me to let you go."
She nodded softly.
He kissed her forehead. "What did John say?"
She handed it to him and let him read it.
Elena,
It's no easy task being an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. I failed in that task and because of my prejudices, I failed you. I'm haunted by how things might have played out differently. If I'd been more willing to hear your side of things, for me, it's the end. For you, a chance to grow old and someday do better with your own child than I did with mine. It's for that child that I give you my ring. ""I don't ask for your forgiveness or for you to forget. I ask only that you believe this. Whether you are now reading this as a human or as a vampire, I love you all the same as I've always loved you, and always will.
John
Stefan looked up from the letter. "That was very nice. How do you feel about it?"
Elena just shrugged.
Stefan knew better than the press the issue. So he changed the subject. "Are you ready to go?"
She nodded. They both stood up and locked hands. They went downstairs, and everyone left the house.
Lexi, Caroline, Bonnie, Alaric, Jeremy, Damon, Stefan, and Elena, all entered the cemetery and went over to the Gilbert plot. Elena had four roses in her hands. Inhaling and exhaling a deep breath she slowly walked away from Stefan and put a rose on Jenna's grave and John's grave. She was forcing back the tears and forcing herself not to cry….not yet.
She went over to her parents grave and knelt down in front of it. She put the last two roses down, again forcing herself not to cry, forcing herself to stay strong. She stood up and looked at
Damon. He smiled reassuringly at her and walked away.
After that, the walls broke down she was having a harder time holding back the tears. A lone tear slipped down her cheek. She turned and went over to Stefan and buried her face in his shoulder. He rubbed her back and kissed her head. "Are you ready to go home?" he asked her softly.
She nodded.
"Ok, head back to the car with the others. I'll grab Damon and be right behind you."
Elena shook her head and clung to him for dear life. "You promised."
"Come with me, Sweetie," Lexi said putting a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Stefan will meet up with us at the car. Besides the faster, we get there the better chance we have of getting the best seat."
Elena didn't respond she held Stefan even tighter.
"How about I go get Damon, and you take her to the car," Lexi said. "She's not letting you go."
Stefan nodded. He gave her one last kiss and went toward the car.
Lexi went over to Damon. "We're going to head back to the house."
"I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes," Damon said.
"Damon, she needs us right now. All of us."
"And then what's the plan, Lexi? The curse is broken. How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf-vamp?"
"I have no idea."
"You need to get an idea. Fast."
"We will. I'm not going to let Elena lose anybody else."
"I wouldn't make any promises."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Tyler Lockwood bit me. It's actually more of a nip, really, but there it is." He pulled up his sleeve to reveal hit bite.
"Ok, this isn't so bad. I saved Rose I can save you." Lexi said.
"Oh yeah? How? You never told us what was used to save Rose."
"I never will. But I promise Damon I'll get the cure, and I will save you too."
"Why? You hate me."
"You're Stefan's brother and like it or not Elena cares about. I'm not taking you away from either of them."
"Well then go get it and fast." With that Damon started to walk away.
Lexi sighed and turned to see Stefan and Elena still standing there. She could tell by the look on Stefan's face he had heard. But he was focusing on Elena. She didn't want to leave until Lexi was with them.
She walked back over with a soft smile. "You didn't have to wait for me. Come on, let's go."
Together they walked back to the car. Getting the cure was going to be a lot harder if Elena was so anxious about her and Stefan being away from her.
Getting the cure was dangerous, she would never take Elena with her to get it. So how could she save Damon and stay but Elena's side at the same time?
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