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Klaus. She was standing right in front of Klaus.

But Elena was even more shocked that Stefan and Damon had worked with him. How could they?

Instead of accepting Klaus' hand, Elena spun around swiftly to face Stefan again. Her face was one of betrayal.

"Why the hell are you working with him? That monster? How could you?"

Stefan frowned at Elena's sudden explosion. "What are you talking about?" he asked in confusion. "This was the man that helped save you. This 'monster' is the reason why you're standing in front of my right here and right now."

"But he—"

"I know he's an Original," he cut her off, "but he has no interest in the sacrifice. He just wants some revenge on an old friend of his—the vampire that kidnapped you."

Lies, Elena immediately thought, he's been feeding Stefan and Damon lies…

"Actually," Klaus intercepting voice called out from behind me, "Stefan, I had forgotten to mention one—small detail."

Ah ha.

"What?" Stupid Stefan.

"I forgot to include the tiny part, where I was to keep Elena after I found her." He smirked evilly.

Elena noticed Stefan's stiffened posture. "Yes," he said in a controlled, calm voice, "that would've been…handy to have known that before…"

Stefan looked up coldly at Klaus. "But you lied."

The vampire Original looked taken aback. "I did not lie," he defended, "I was simply…concealing information."

"Well," Stefan said in a defiant tone, "the deal's off. We're leaving. C'mon Elena." Damn, Stefan was stupid. Did he not know what Klaus was capable of?

He grabbed her arm and pulled her away.

Apparently.

Klaus also seemed amused. "Go on ahead. Let's see how far you get."

Stefan was dragging Elena further away, leading her to the car that she had been put in.

This was just what Klaus probably wanted us to do.

Oh, god. Running was just going to make it an even worse ending for Stefan.

Elena tried to stop him. "Stefan," she protested, attempting to halt him. "This is exactly what he wants us to do. Running is going to make this worse."

It was like her words were entering one ear and leaving out of the other. He wasn't even listening to her.

In fear, Elena turned back to Klaus. He was no longer standing there. This was not a good sign.

Stefan shoved her in the passenger seat. What was he doing?

When he got to the driver's seat with the keys in the ignition, he drove off frantically. The car was swerving left to right. They were getting farther and farther each second. But Elena knew that they were far from safe.

But Stefan seemed calm after five minutes of being on the road. He assumed that they were okay.

He let out a relieved sigh. "Well, glad that's over—"

Elena screamed when the window beside her shattered into millions of pieces of glass and she was grabbed out of the car. Stefan was in the same situation. The vehicle swerved uncontrollably until it was halted by a tree it crashed into.

She fought the person that had her in his strong grasp. Klaus simply grabbed her hair to keep her in control. "A fighter, aren't you?"

Elena growled. "You've no idea."

Stefan fought against the vampires restraining him. "Let me go!" he yelled.

Easily, one of the vampires restraining him took out a stake and stabbed him in the side.

Klaus threw Elena to one of the other vampires and strolled over to the pain-stricken Stefan on his knees. "You know," the Original started with a smirk, "I should just kill you."

Stefan screamed in agony when the stake was pressured deeper into his skin.

"But that would just take all the fun out of it."

Klaus grinned even wider. "Did you know that an Original can compel another vampire?"

Elijah's dead body was thrown into a dungeon. Annabeth made sure that no one would remove that dagger. It was to stay in until Klaus was finished with the sacrifice. Then they'd pull it out, and Klaus was going to deal with him personally.

Annabeth didn't have the slightest sympathy for her cousin. The times that they had played and frolicked when they were kids were over. This was real life. This was her destiny.

And with that, she locked the cell and buried the last of the sympathy and pain she had left for Elijah.

Elena struggled against the Salvatore brothers' cement hold. Klaus had compelled them to take Elena to one of the cells inside the vampire lair. The vampires were helpless under his control.

"Damon! Stefan! Snap out of it!" but Elena knew it was useless.

She was simply tossed into of the cells and locked inside. Elena immediately searched for an exit, a hole, a rust in the metal—but none was discovered.

She quietly sobbed, her head in her hands. She should might as well stop fighting. Fighting only made everything worse.

Because of her, Stefan and Damon were in danger. It was because of her Elijah was in the grasp of Klaus once again.

Everything was her fault.

Elena gave up. There was no more hope for her of anybody.

She tearfully stared into the flame in the candle. At least she had a little light before she died.

Then, she noticed something on the other side of her cell. It was an arm.

An arm?

And that arm connected to a body, and that body connected to a neck, and that neck connected to a face, and that face—

Elijah?

Haha, I know that was a weird place to end that.

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