Authors Note: This is the final chapter of this story, and i thought i might post it before the season 2 premiere of The Vampire Diaries, whos excited? Make sure u check out my new VD story The Bennett Witches.

Damon pulls Stefan outside and out of Katherine's earshot,

"Are you crazy?"

"If it's the only way to Elena" Stefan replies

"But you're cheating on Elena, and making me very cranky"

"Oh well then it's settled, you sleep with her, which is no problem for you, and get the answer out of her"

"She wants you to sleep with her, she won't tell me" This made Damon feel betrayed.

"Don't you see what she's trying to do all over again?" Stefan told him, Damon shrugged.

"She's trying to turn the Salvatore brothers against each other again, that's her game"

"No she won't because I know she loves only me, so I can have her and you and Elena can be together in peace"

"No, look, iv got it figured out" walks back into the Mystic Grill.

"Ok Katherine I'll do it, and leave Damon out of this" Stefan tells her, she grins wide like The Cheshire Cat.

"Excellent" she stands up, puts money on the bar and leads Stefan out of the Grill, But Damon is standing before them.

"Katherine you don't need to sleep with Stefan" he crosses his arms.

"Oh listen to that, the Salvatore's are fighting over little old me again" she says with a giggle.

"Damon, I want to do this"

"Yeah, it's the only way he can get his precious Elena back, come on Stefan" They walk past Damon and leave the bar, leaving Damon feeling empty and furious.

Elena runs to the door again, it opens and she runs out into the hallway, right into the lean chest of a vampire. She would've screamed but her airway was cut off by the male vampire's hand on her throat.

"Katherine told me not to let you escape" he growls, picks Elena up, tosses her over his shoulder and throws her back into the room and locks the door behind him. She sighs and is about to sink back into the soft bed when she hears the lock on the door click open, weird, didn't he just lock it? She runs to the door again and peaks out, the coast is clear, ok too good to be true, she sneaks out and runs down the hallway until the sounds of a couple's passion stops her in her tracks. It was coming from a nearby room. She walks over to the door, its ajar and when she looks inside her heart breaks in two.

There on the bed are Stefan and Katherine in their underwear getting all hot and heavy.

"Stefan?" Elena manages to say, almost in tears. His head jerks up and his heart sinks, he sits up immediately.

"Elena I can explain"

"No you don't need to, let Katherine explain, she's been manipulating you and Damon this whole time" standing with arms crossed, tears streaming down her face. Katherine sits up, but her hand still rests on Stefan's chest. Katherine's lingerie was so skimpy and lacy; Elena would never wear anything that skanky, they were black lace with a green shimmery material underneath, evil looking, just what Katherine is.

"Stefan and Damon had a choice; one of them had to sleep with me and one had to kill me, but I would only tell Stefan where you were if he was the one who slept with me"

"And that's why you had me trapped in this house; you planned on me walking in on you"

"Smart girl, I can see why you love her Stefan"

"Ok Katherine I'm giving you a choice now" Elena told her.

"Oh this should be interesting"

"Elena…" Stefan begins to speak but Elena cuts him off.

"It's ok Stefan" then turning to Katherine she says, "Walk away, leave the boys alone and never come back, otherwise I will kill you"

Katherine pretended to be shocked then all she did was laugh evilly.

"I'm not scared of you, human" She said 'human' like she was spitting out poison. She continued laughing like that, and neither Katherine nor Elena sensed Damon or Bonnie in the doorway.

"No but you should be afraid of me" Bonnie says, and with her mind she incapacitates Katherine with a high pitch screeching.

"Make it stop!" Katherine screams, but everyone ignores her. Damon throws Stefan a wooden stake and he impales Katherine with it. He acts way too fast for her react, she takes one last breath of air, and with it she speaks one last word, well four.

"Damon I love you" and then she dies.

Bonnie takes Elena out of the house and drives her home, while Stefan helps Damon with Katherine's body. Stefan walks back into the bedroom where Damon is standing still watching Katherine.

"Im sorry" he tells his brother, putting a hand on his shoulder, "but this is the way it has to be"

"She loved me"

"Not really, even to her death she's still playing games with us" he laughs a bit, Damon glares at him. Stefan changes the subject.

"Come on, I'll help you burn her"

"No I can handle it myself, go back to Elena, at least she's alive" and with that Damon picks up Katherine's body and takes her outside.

"I can't believe how awesome and brave you were back there" Elena tells Bonnie on the drive back.

"I would've done anything to save you Elena" turning to look at her then looks back at the road.

"Thank you, but how did you know where we were?"

"Damon came and got me" Elena smiles

"What?"

"You working with Damon, you used to hate him"

"I still do, he's still an annoying ass, but you were in trouble so"

"Thank you. I would hug you right now but you're driving" and the two best friends smile at each other.

Damon places Katherine in a shallow grave he's dug, putting her on a bed of wood and stands back and throws his lighter in there, watching as Katherine's body is immediately engulfed in flames like a giant bonfire. Stefan comes and stands beside his brother, Damon glances over at him then back at the fire, and they stand there together saying their last goodbyes to Katherine Pearce.