Chapter 15
This couldn't be happening. It couldn't. I've dreaded for this day for months. We tried everything to stop it and now Jenna and Elena were going to die…and my fate would come soon enough. Still in the quarry, Elena and I sat on the ground while Jenna sat on her knees rocking back and forth and back and forth clutching onto her head. I kept an eye on the woman standing on a rock a couple feet away from us. She was holding a big spell book in her hands.
"That's Greta" Elena whispered close to my ear.
I turned my head and looked at her in disbelief. "Greta?" I asked back in whisper. "As in Greta Martin? Luka's sister?"
Elena nodded.
"Oh," We both turned our attention to Jenna who know sat up straight but one hand was still on her head. "My head. What's wrong with me?"
"Do you remember what happened?" Elena asked her.
"You called me," Jenna said looking at Elena. "You were so scared. "I should have realized that it wasn't you. The second I walked out of the house, someone grabbed me. A vampire"
"Klaus" Elena and I said at the same time.
"It was Klaus" Elena finished it off.
"He made me," Jenna continued. "Drink his blood and I don't…I don't remember anything after that," she then looked around the area we were in. "Where are we? What happened?"
"We're at quarry," Elena said. "He brought us here"
"Why don't' I remember anything"
I looked at Elena. Asking her if it was ok. She nodded and I turned back to Jenna. "Aunt Jenna," I started off. She looked at me dead in the eye.
I didn't want to tell her. That she turned into a blood sucking monster. That she would die in just a few hours because of a sacrifice that I could have helped stopped but…I was the reason we were all here. I was so focused of getting that power to stop Klaus…that I just ended up helping him in the end. I took a deep breath in and out and continued on.
"Remember…when we talked about vampires? And how you become one?"
"Yeah," she answered. "If you die with vampire blood in your system it," She then realized what happened. She knew. "Oh god…He killed me"
"Jenna," Elena said. "Listen. It'll be ok. Everything is going to be ok. We're going to find a way to get out of this"
Was she serious or was she just saying that to make Jenna feel better? I knew we wouldn't make out of this alive. All hope was lost. They would both die to break the curse and Klaus will take me to Vlad…or kill me to piss Vlad off.
"I'm a vampire?" Jenna asked, breaking my train of thought.
"And I bet you're hungry" We all looked behind Jenna and saw Greta walking up to us. I glared at her as she walked up to us. Elena got up right away and I saw she was going after a rock a couple feet away from us but Greta raised her hand and casted a spell that sent Elena flying across the field. Then a circle made of fire went around Elena making her trapped inside.
Still sitting beside Jenna, I reached for my boot to grab my wand but it wasn't there. Was it in the other one? I checked the other one but it wasn't there. Maybe it's in my back pockets? I checked those areas but it wasn't there. "Where's my wand?" I asked myself in whisper.
"Looking for this?" Greta asked. I looked up and saw her holding my red shinny wand with the small green crystal sphere on top.
I glared at her as I jumped to my feet and bolted towards her. "Give me back my wand you bitch!" But just like she did to Elena, she sent me flying in the air but in the opposite direction of Elena. I landed beside the big rock Greta stood moments ago beside the water edge. Greta made the same fiery prison for me as she did for Elena. I went to jump out of the circle but was brunt in the process and pushed back.
"Don't bother trying to get through," Greta said. "I spelled the circle. You're trapped. No matter what you do," she looked back at Elena. "That goes for the both of you"
"Greta," Elena said. "Please, just…just let her go"
"Klaus chose her"
"Klaus my ass," I said. She turned around and glared at me. "Let her go, Greta. Find somebody else"
Greta gave me a smirk before picking up the rock Elena tried to run for earlier and cut her wrist and brought the fresh blood up to Jenna's face. "Drink it" Greta demanded.
"Don't!" I screamed.
"I can't" Jenna said as she was hypnotized by the blood pouring out of the wound.
"Jenna, don't!" Elena screamed.
"Let her go, Greta!" I screamed, again. "She doesn't need to be a part of this!" But it was too late. Jenna already latched her jaws around Greta's wrist and started drinking her blood. She was a vampire.
"No!" Elena screamed.
I just looked away. I didn't want to witness this scene but I could still hear Jenna sucking the blood out of her wrist and her moaning at the taste of it. It then stopped. I turned around and saw Jenna lying on the ground as Greta got up from her knees. She walked away and made a fiery circle around Jenna. Jenna gets up and looks at me for a seconded. Her lips are covered in blood.
"Oh no" I said as I turn around and looked away, again.
"Jenna," I hear Elena say threw the sobs. "It's going to be ok. Look at me. Hey, look at me," I turn around and see Jenna's back facing me. She looked at Elena. I can see the fire glow in Elena's watery eyes. "It's going to be ok," Jenna turned back to me and her eyes were red and the veins popped out from under her eyes. She was a full vampire. "It's going to be ok"
No, it wasn't going to be ok.
We followed Klaus down to the quarry where the werewolf, the aunt, Elena and Alex were. Greta was down there also getting ready. Marisol and I kept our distance from Klaus. We knew how badly he wanted to break this curse and it was driving him crazy. If we didn't want to get hurt, we would keep our distance.
"Greta," we heard Elena say as we came closer to the quarry. "Witches are supposed to maintain the balance in nature. It's your duty to them to keep this curse sealed"
"My duty is to Klaus!" We heard Greta say loudly. "The new order"
I rolled my eyes. Suck up. Trying to get to the top of Klaus' favorite list.
We made it to the bottom and Klaus stopped a couple feet away from Greta. "Glad to know I still have a dance partner" Klaus said. He then turned to Elena, the aunt and the werewolf. "Hello, my lovelies," he said as he clapped his hands together. "Are we ready?" he said with a smirk.
Marisol and I stood a couple feet away from the ceremony just in front of the starting point of the tree. I looked at Alex in her circle and saw her glaring at me. "What are you doing here?" She barked at me.
I gave her a smile. "I thought I'd come watch the show. Seeing that this is your fault that the sacrifice is happening in the first place" I finished the last part with a smirk.
Alex looked away and into the fire. I could see the tears starting to form in her eyes.
"So," I turned to Marisol and whispered into her ear. "When should we start?"
I kneeled on the ground and watched Marisol and Isabella talking to each other. Klaus made his way onto the rock and stood on the side closest to me and Greta stood in front of this rock that stood in the middle and from what I could tell, there was some sort of bowl in the middle. Jules, the werewolf, was still screaming from the pain from the transformation. She was one of the werewolves that kidnapped Caroline and Damon. She's also the one that left with Tyler.
Greta was reading the spell and Klaus stood a couple feet away from me on the rock twirling the moonstone in his hands. His eyes fixed on it as if he was guarding it. I tore myself from Isabella and Marisol's direction and looked at Klaus. "Why did you bring me here?" I asked Klaus.
His head popped up and looked at me and a smirk appeared across his face. He walked up to me slowly and stood in front of the circle, looking down at me. "Since you care so much for the doppelgänger, I thought it would interesting having you here to watch her take her last breath as I suck her dry"
"You!" I said as I glared at him and stood up on my feet and walked up to him but stopped when I remembered the fire in front of me. "You sick bastard! First you turn my aunt, now you're sacrificing my cousin and you want me to watch as you kill them right in front of me! I hope you burn in hell"
"After the sacrifice, I won't have to worry about that" He says with a smirk. With that, he turns his heel and walked back where he stood before.
I pick up a rock and throw it at him but it bounces back and hits the ground. I groan as I kick some twigs and small rocks around before I plant my but to the ground and big my knees up, wrapping my arms around them and glare into the fire.
"I got the moonstone," I hear Klaus say but I don't bother to look up. I know who he's taking to. "I spent 500 years looking for this. I hate to part with it"
"The moon is passed its apex," I hear Greta say. "Remember everything you need to do?"
"I remember" I hear Klaus say, husky.
I then hear an explosion and I jump and turn around to see a small fire blazing in the bowl. Now, Jules is screaming louder and Greta is chanting the ritual. I stand up and look at Elena, Jenna and Jules. Elena is standing up, Jenna's on her knees and Jules lying on the ground, holding onto her stomach. Klaus then walks pass my circle, walking towards Jules'
"Everything I did," Jules says as she shaking uncontrollably. "I was just trying to help Tyler"
"Are you Jules?" Elena asked.
"Yeah," I said. The three of them look at me. "I remember you from before and Damon said some things about you from time to time"
Jules looked at me with tears in her eyes. "I didn't want him to be alone" she then closed her eyes and groaned from the pain, again.
Klaus stopped in front of Jules' circle. "Shall we?" he asks.
Jules groans a couple more times before the circle disappears. She looks up in disbelief. She stops moaning. The pain is gone. She looks at me with amber eyes before running out of the circle, trying to get around Klaus but he grabs her and pins her to the ground and shoves his hand into her chest. Elena, Jenna and I gasp at the sight.
It was so horrifying. I mean, I have seen lots of people die. Mostly vampires at the hands of Stefan or Damon and mostly from Damon and some of those deaths were either close to me or my circle. Like Vicki but to watch Klaus shove his hand into a person I just met was scary. This beat Stefan shoving the stake threw Vicki's chest.
I saw a tear roll down the corner of Jules' eye before Klaus ripped it out of her chest. Jules' groaned one last time before her eyes rolled back and her head laid back on ground as her eyes closed.
Klaus looked up and smiled at us as he held the red, mushy heart in his hand. His hand covered in blood. I looked at Aunt Jenna and tears started rolling down her eyes. She was next. Klaus turned and walked up to the bowl and started squeezing the juices of the heart into the bowl. I could hear the contents dripping into it.
"Does that mean its working?" Klaus asked, still squeezing the heart.
"It's working" Greta said with a smile.
I looked back at Jenna and Elena. Elena was pacing back and forth. Her eyes glued on Klaus. Jenna was still on her knees and the tears were still forming. "The day," Jenna said looking at Elena. "That the lawyers called to tell me that I was going to become you guardian, you know what my first thought was?" Elena broke her glance from Klaus and looked at Jenna. She shook her head. "Isn't there someone else who can do this?" She then turned her head to me. "And when you dad called begging me to take you and your brother. Begging me to raise you and give you a new life here. To help you…I…I just…I was scared"
"Jenna," Elena said. "There was no one else who could have gotten me and Jeremy through all of that"
"And Aunt Jenna," I said. "When I came here…I was just a trouble maker from the big city and now…I've made news friends. Learn new things. I've…grown up in a way…thanks to you"
"Just," Jenna said. "The thought that I almost passed up taking care of the both of you"
"But you didn't," Elena said. "You put your entire life on hold to help us"
Jenna looked at Elena straight in the eye. "Look around, Elena. I failed you," she turned her head and looked at me. "The both of you"
"No," I said as a shook my head. "No, you didn't. Listen. All of this. The reason why were standing here and not at home in our cozy little home is because of me. I should've been there to help. I should have worked with the 'team' but…I thought I could do this on my own and obviously I can't," she looked down to the ground. "Aunt Jenna…there are some good things about being a vampires"
Jenna made a small laugh as she looked at the night sky quickly before turning to me. "And what's that?"
"Look the thing is, when you become a vampire, you feel more guilt then you did before but that's a good thing because it makes you stronger, faster…making it easy to fight back. Use this,"
I looked at Klaus to see if he was listening and he was not. He was too focused on Greta. I turned to Marisol and Isabella but they weren't there. They were gone. I scanned the area one more time before turning back to Jenna.
"When you get the chance," I whispered. "Run and don't stop or come back. Just get as far away from here" Jenna nodded
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A couple minutes passed by of waiting and waiting. I hated this waiting of when he who he was going to sacrifice next. Klaus got down from the rock and walked over to Elena and Jenna's circles with a stake in his hand. Elena was on her knees and so was Jenna but Jenna's face was buried in her hands. She was scared of how she was going to escape.
"Hello, Jenna" Klaus said. Jenna popped her head up and glared at him as she stood up slowly.
Elena stood up right away. "Let her go," she said. "I understand that I have to die, but she doesn't," she then looked at me. "And let Alex go too!"
"No, Elena-" I said as I took a step towards the fire but was burnt again.
"Careful," he said looking at me. "I'm going to need you in tip top shape if I'm going to bargain you with Vlad" I glared at him.
"Elena," Jenna looked at her. "Don't"
"No, Jenna! We can't leave Jeremy without a family," Elena looked back at Klaus. "I followed your rules. I did everything that you asked. I didn't run-"
"I didn't either" I piped up.
"Please" Elena begged.
Klaus gave Elena one last glance before looking at Jenna who was still glaring at him. "Well, well," he said as he nodded his head a couple of times before looking up. "I don't recall you being on the guest list"
We all looked up at what he was looking at and I gasped at the sight. Stefan was standing right on top of the cliff.
"Stefan!" I called out. "Get out!" It was like Stefan ignored my comment because he didn't move or say anything.
He must have said something quietly so only Klaus could hear because Klaus responded with, "Very well, then" and in a second, he was on top of the cliff, walking up to Stefan.
The three of us looked up to the two talking. "What's going on?" Jenna asked.
"I have no idea," I said but then I remembered. I looked at Jenna. "Aunt Jenna you can hear them"
"What?"
"Yeah you can hear them. All you have to do is focus on them and only them," Jenna looked at the top of the cliff and tried focusing. I looked up and saw them talking and Klaus walking around Stefan.
"What's going on?"
"I can't," she said as shes shaking her head. "I can't make it-"
"Jenna!" she turned and looked at me. "Relax. Focus"
She looked back up to the cliff and tried focusing again. "I can hear them," she says in disbelief. "I can hear Stefan"
"What is it? What is he saying?"
"Oh my god"
"What?"
She takes a deep breath in and out and then looks at me. "He wants to take my place"
I shook my head. "No" I whisper.
We waited for Klaus and Stefan to finish their conversation. Elena was pacing back and forth, not sure what to do. "Elena-" Jenna said trying to calm her down.
"I have to d something," Elena said cutting her off. "This can't happen. None of it"
"Quite the predicament," he all turned and saw Stefan walking down the hill and Klaus following behind. "You know, it's funny, all this talk about preserving family and here's Stefan, granting your wish" Klaus said with a smirk.
"Stefan" I said threw the sobs as I feel some tears rolling down my eyes.
He gives me a smile. "It's ok" he said as his eyes start to water.
"Well," Klaus said. "Who's it going to be, Elena? You aunt or your cousin's boyfriend?" He said pointing at Jenna and Stefan with the stake still in his hand.
"No" she said as she stood her ground.
A smile forms on Klaus' face. "Oh, don't worry. There's actually no choice"
In a flash, Klaus runs behind Stefan and stabs him in the back with the stake.
"Stefan!" I scream as I put my hands over my mouth.
Stefan groans in pain as he leans over. Klaus breaks the stake, leaving half the stake in there.
"I have other plans for you boyfriend," he said looking at me. "I want him alive but for now-" Klaus breaks Stefan's back and Stefan spins around in the air and hits the forest floor flat on his face.
"Stefan!" I scream again but he's 'dead'.
"Whenever you're ready, Greta" Klaus says with his back faced towards her. The circle around Jenna disappears.
"No!" Both Elena and I scream.
"Your turn" Klaus said to Jenna.
Jenna looks at him before looking at Elena. "It's alright, Elena. I know what I have to do"
She looks at me one more time before running up to Greta and biting onto her neck. Klaus in an instant runs up to Jenna and stabs her in the back, pulling her away from Greta and then pushing her face first on the rock. There are more and more tears flowing from my eyes because I know, this is Jenna's last moments.
"Jenna, no!" I heard Elena said.
I kept my eyes on Jenna. Jenna looked up and looked between Elena and I and I can see she knows what's going to happen.
"Aunt Jenna!" I scream threw the sobs. "Turn it off. Turn it off and you won't be scared anymore"
She too starts to cry as she looks at me. Klaus grabs Jenna's shoulder and flips her around so that her back is on the rock. Klaus leans over top of her and in a second he stabs her in the chest.
"No!" Both Elena and I scream at the same time.
I fall to my knees and start crying harder as I watch Jenna's head lean back on the rock, her eyes close and her skin turning grey. The whole time, Elena is screaming Jenna's name threw the sobs. How was I going to tell Dad?
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I hear Stefan's groans. I turn his way and see him trying to get the piece of stake still in his back but its no use. He looks at Elena, whose now on her knees and her face is wet. He looks at me and no doubt, my face is wet as well and then he looks at Jenna's dead body still lying where Klaus staked her. He looks back at me. "I'm so sorry" He whispers as he looks between me and Elena.
"Are they going to kill him?" I heard Elena ask in whisper.
"Yes" Stefan whispered back.
I look up and watch Klaus walk over to Elena's circle. "It's time" he said to her. Elena looks up at him as the circle disappears.
"Klaus!" I call. He turned his heel and looked at me. "Please…I'm just asking this one favor. Please…let me just…say good bye to her…properly before she dies," I look at Elena straight in the eye. "She's like a sister to me. Please. I'm begging you"
A smirk appears across Klaus' face as he looks between me and Elena and then looks at me one last time. "Why not? I was kind of hoping for an ending like this," he turns his head towards Greta. "Greta, love, would you mind?" Greta nods and my circle disappears.
I quickly get up to my feet and run up to Elena and we hug each other tightly as we cry harder and harder. "No matter what happens," I look at her straight in the eye "We're still family"
A small smile appears on Elena's face. "Always" she responds. We hug each other tightly one last time.
"Alright," we heard Klaus say. "That's enough" he said as he grabbed my arm, pulled me up and pushed me to the ground. I look up and glare at him just has he holds his hand out towards Elena but she give him a glare, gets up and walked over the rock. I give him a small smirk as he glares at me.
He turned around and walked over to the rock. "Greta" he said as she nods and the fire the imprisoned Elena now imprisons me.
Elena walks over and stands beside Jenna's body and looks down on it. Focusing on it so she doesn't have to look at Klaus but that doesn't work because Klaus walks up to Elena, stands beside her and tilts her head so that she's looking at him.
I look out of the corner of my eye and see Stefan trying to get up. Trying to save her.
"Thank you, Elena" I heard Klaus say. "Go to hell" she said as she glared at him.
He smiles as he leans in and goes for the bite. I hear Elena breath deeply as Klaus drinks her blood.
I feel the tears rolling down my eyes. "Elena" I said the sobs. I look into her eyes until the light fades away and her eyes close slowly. Klaus then throws her to the ground and I look into his red eyes and the blood pouring out of his mouth.
Stefan and I look at each other. We were both scared of what was to happen. The fire in the bowl goes out along with the circle. I scrabble to get to Stefan and get the stake out of his back. I pull it out and pull Stefan up and start hugging him. He pulls me back.
"You ok?" He asks as he holds my head in his hands. I nodded.
We stop talking when we hear Klaus gasp. We both look at him and see him standing there. He's shocked. He steps down from the rock and I can see Greta leaning against the rock where the bowl is. "I can feel it," Klaus said is a raspy voice. "It's happening" He looks up to the sky.
Stefan and I do the same and see that it's a full moon.
He then start screaming and yelling as I can tell he's transforming and I can see his eyes turn amber but a little bit lighter then what Jules' looked like. Klaus is now screaming at the top of his lungs but is then thrown back across the field and everything lights back up on fire, including the bowl.
I hear somebody chanting and both Stefan and I look up to see Bonnie coming down the hill with her hand pointed towards Klaus as he screams in pain.
I look over to Greta and see she's ready to cast a spell at Bonnie but Damon walks up to her, about to snap her neck until I see Isabella. "Sorry cutie" She said as she pushed him off the rock and he fell flat on the ground.
Greta turned around and smiled at Isabella. "You saved me"
"Nope," Isabella said giving her a smirk. "It's more the other way around" she said as she snapped Greta's neck and threw her into the river like a rag doll. Isabella brushed her hands together. "Wanted the pleasure of doing that myself. Now, onto Plan B"
"And that is?" I call out to her. She gives me a smirk and then disappears.
I look over to Damon who has Elena in her arms and he brings her over to us. We ignore for a moment what's going on with Bonnie and Klaus. Damon lays Elena's body beside us and I try to wake her up. "Elena," I said. "Elena, please get up," I then realized she might not get up till later.
"Can you get her out of here?" I asked Damon.
"And what do you think you're doing?" Damon asked.
"I'm staying here until I see Klaus dead"
Stefan looks at Damon. "I'll stay with her" Damon nods and runs out of here. Stefan and I get up and watch Bonnie continue the spell to take down Klaus. Klaus is still screaming from the pain. Bonnie is then finished and we see Elijah come into view.
He walks up to Klaus and stands above him.
"Elijah" Klaus said.
"Hello, brother" Elijah said back.
Stefan and I walk up to Bonnie and stand beside her.
Elijah brings his arm back and digs his hand into Klaus' chest. I take a couple steps towards them. Stefan tries to keep me back but I have an urge to just listen in.
"In the name of our family, Niklaus-" Elijah said to Klaus.
"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus interrupted him.
Elijah looks at him funny. "What?"
"Their bodies are safe. If you kill me, you'll never find them"
"Elijah!" Stefan calls to him. Elijah turns his head and looks at us. "Don't listen to him"
"I can take you to them," Klaus tries to get out. "I give you my word…Brother" Elijah looks between us and Klaus.
"Elijah!" I call out as I take a couple small steps towards him. "Don't do this. What about me? You said you would help me. What about Marina? What about Vlad?" Elijah looks at me sorrow eyes. "I'm sorry"
"Do it," Bonnie said. "And I'll take you both out"
"You'll die"
"I don't care" she said through her teeth.
He looks at Klaus one more time before looking back at us. "I'm sorry"
"No!" All three of us scream at the same time. We all run up to him but in a flash, both Elijah and Klaus were gone.
The sacrifice was over. Klaus was now a Hybrid and now the only thing that was left to worry about was Vlad.
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We went back to the old abandon house where Damon took Elena and she woke up alive and human. They told us that Bonnie preformed a spell on John. John sacrificed himself so that Elena could come back to life.
So now we had two funerals to plan.
I later rejoined with Justin which came with lots of hugs and 'I thought I'd never see you again' and 'I'm so glad you're alive' speeches.
We went home the next day to tell Mom, Dad and Max the news. Dad of coarse was heartbroken. I've never seen Dad look like this before. Trying to explain to him how Jenna died was difficult. How do you explain that your sister was turned into a vampire for a sacrifice your niece was involved in and was staked by a thousand year old vampire that turns out to have a sister that looks exactly like your daughter.
We kept it from them this long that we decided to tell them the story from the beginning from Rose to Vlad and then to the sacrifice. Of course, they were mad that we didn't tell them but they didn't care about it for that long because Dad started thinking about Jenna and how he was going to tell Uncle Kelbo and Megan about this.
We went to Paris to go tell Megan and Kelbo came to Paris as well. Justin and I explained to Megan how she, Jenna and Miranda were all adopted. She cried for an hour and was upset how Grandma and Grandpa didn't tell her.
The funeral was planned for the next day. Elena and Jeremy led the way to the cemetery as Justin, Max and I followed and our parents and Megan and Kelbo followed after us and right after that, our friends. Elena went up and placed a rose over Jenna and John's grave and after a couple minutes of thinking, she went to her parents'. I walked over to Jenna's and placed a rose over her grave and then walked over and placed a rose of Miranda and Grayson's grave and kneeled beside Elena.
I put an arm around Elena's shoulder and started rubbing it as she looked down and started crying. I looked up and saw Damon staring at me. Elena looked up and started at Damon with her watery eyes. We both stood up and kept staring at Damon as Damon gave us a nod and then walked into the cemetery. I looked back at the group and saw Dad, Kelbo and Megan place a rose on Jenna's grave. They then walked over to Grayson and Miranda's grave and place roses on each one. Next was Alaric, he walked up to Jenna's grave and placed a rose on her grave. I could tell her was hurting really bad inside. First you lose your wife and now your girlfriend. All of us, except Stefan and Damon met up as a group and we all started comforting each other.
The worst was over and now…now it was time to move on.
That was the sacrifice and as you can see, the next one will be the last chapter for the Beginning of a Love Story but I will do season three witch means, another sequel! I haven't thought of a name for it yet.
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