A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! PARTS OF THIS EPISODE ARE TAKEN FROM SEASON 3 EPISODE 22 I DO NOT OWN IT! THANKS TO MY BETA ELENA RAIN!
After about an hour and a half Bonnie spoke up. "I've got the spell. It's easy enough to do and all I need is the human used to bind the life source"
Elena pulled away from Stefan and looked to Bonnie. "What do I have to do?"
Bonnie smiled softly knowing she was still nervous. "First relax, second, trust me. I'm your best friend. I won't do anything to hurt you."
"I know, I'm sorry." Elena smiled softly.
Bonnie took Elena's hands in hers. She started to mutter something in Latin. Elena waited to feel something weird inside her but she didn't feel anything. It felt normal. Even when Bonnie was finished Elena felt the same.
"All right, the spell is broken. Now what's the plan?"Bonnie asked.
Just than Damon walked in. "Klaus is out, I'm going in his place. You Sabrina are going to be in charge of getting Elena and Jeremy out of there. Stefan and I will do the rest."
"Just don't…don't hurt him." Elena said softly.
"Good luck with that." Damon muttered.
"We will do our best, Elena." Stefan said gently. "Just remember, in order for Alaric to believe this I'm going to have to say things I don't mean, some of it may be about you. So just keep in mind, I love you."
Elena smiled softly. "If I say 'fine, Stefan, whatever' what I really mean is I love you."
Stefan chuckled. "All right, good, you know all the codes."
They smiled and shared a kiss on the lips. Then everyone headed out of the house and to the school.
They arrived outside the school but didn't go inside.
"All right, Damon and I are going in first. Elena wait at least 10 minutes before you come in and try to convince us not to turn ourselves over. Bonnie you wait another 10 minutes before you come rushing in and pull both Jeremy and Elena away." Stefan explained.
"What are you two going to do?" Elena asked. "How are you going to stop him from killing you both?"
"Just don't worry about that, we've got it covered."
"Stefan…"
"Elena, you've got to trust me. The goal is to save Jeremy and keep all the vampires alive. I'm going to do that but you've got to trust me."
Elena sighed and nodded. She and Stefan shared a deep passionate kiss on the lips before Damon and Stefan walked into the school. Elena let out a deep breath. "Any chance you can see the future?"
Bonnie chuckled. "They will be fine. They've had lots of practice."
"I hope so, has it been five minutes? Maybe I should head inside."
"Elena, it's been less than 60 seconds. Relax, all right."
Elena sighed and nodded.
Stefan and Damon made it to the classroom just in time to see Alaric snap Jeremy's neck and him fall to the floor. Stefan was glad Elena didn't see it.
"Stop, let him go." Damon said as they walked in.
"Stefan and Damon what a surprise. Where is Elena?"
"Home." Stefan answered. "She doesn't know we are here. We've come to offer you a deal."
"What kind of a deal?"
"Us, you kill us more than likely all the other vampires in Mystic Falls will follow. Then you won't need to worry about Elena's safety anymore, but there is one condition."
"What?"
"Let Jeremy go and stop killing him." Damon answered for him.
"Fine, take him. I've done all I can do with him for now. The rest is up to him."
"Stefan wait! Stefan stop!" a voice called.
Elena came running in panting. "Stefan, Please, stop! Don't do this. We've finally gotten back together, don't give yourself over to him, please."
"Elena, I'm sorry. After all I've done to you, to all the innocent people, after all Klaus has made me do, I just can't live with myself. I've caused you too much pain and hurt. I can't do it anymore. I'm doing what's best for you, I'm taking myself from your life."
"No that won't make it better, Stefan, please, stop!" Elena begged.
"I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore, Elena."
"Fine, Stefan, whatever!" she said in her best annoyed tone. "But then you'll have to take me too."
"What?"
"What?"
Stefan and Damon watched in shock as she walked over and stood in front of them. This wasn't part of the plan.
"If you want to kill them you'll have to kill me."
"No, I can kill them and keep you alive, Elena."
"Not with me standing here you can't."
Alaric shrugged. He grabbed Elena by the arm and literally threw her against the wall causing her to hit her head, hard. She dropped to the floor feeling dizzy and out of it.
Stefan growled. "You have what you want leave them alone!"
"I'm not after them. They are free to leave whenever they want. Although they don't look like they're going anywhere."
Stefan looked to Elena, she was conscience but very out of it. Then to Jeremy who was dead on the floor. This wasn't part of the plan. Where was Bonnie?
Elena groaned softly trying to focus and hear what was going on but she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Finally her world went dark.
When she woke up again she looked around confused. Why was she back home? How did she get back home? What happen to Stefan?
She shot up in bed with a gasp. "Stefan!" she called out. "Stefan?"
He came running inside. "Hey, hey, hey, it's ok it's ok. It's over we're safe." He told her running to her bed side.
"It's over?" she asked.
Stefan nodded and moved some hair behind her ear. "Alaric is gone. He can't hurt anyone anymore."
"How?"
"Tyler and Caroline came in at the last second and helped us. We are all fine."
"Jeremy?"
"He's fine, normal. No side effects of being killed. I don't think he was killed enough times to trigger anything."
Elena sighed in relief but then groaned and grabbed her head. She laid back down. "Was I hit by a truck?"
Stefan chuckled softly putting his cold hand against her warm forehead. "No, but Alaric slammed you into the wall. You hit your head really hard and blacked out."
"How bad is it?"
"What?"
"My head?"
"Bonnie did a spell and it's pretty bad. There is really only one way to fix it but I couldn't let them do it without your permission."
Elena sighed. "Vampire blood?"
Stefan nodded.
"I'll do it, but only if it's yours. The only one I trust enough to take from."
Stefan nodded and kissed her forehead gently. With one hand he helped her sit up and he bit into the other. "Are you sure?" he asked her.
She nodded softly. Stefan handed her his wrist. She took it gently and put it to her mouth. Stefan always made sure he was softly and gently about it, he never forced it into her mouth and she loved that about him.
Once she had enough she pulled his wrist away and gave it a kiss. He just chuckled. "Feel better?"
Elena nodded softly. "A little dizzy still but the headache is gone."
"Good, just get some rest, all right?"
"You'll stay right?"
"Of course."
They shared a kiss on the lips and Elena closed her eyes letting the sleep take over.
Elena woke up to the blaring of her alarm clock. She groaned and smacked it, making it stop. She sat up in bed and quickly got ready for the day ahead of her. She was all smiles as she went downstairs and saw her Aunt Jenna and her mother.
As she reached for the coffee Jenna stopped her. "You're going to get me in trouble."
Elena giggled as her mother walked into the room. She turned and smiled. "Morning Mom."
Her mother kissed her cheek and smiled back. "Morning."
Suddenly she blinked and when her eyes opened she was back in her bedroom with Stefan. It took her a second to realize what had happen but then she realized and sighed. "It was just a dream." She whispered. "It was all a dream."
"What was a dream?" Stefan asked.
Elena sighed. "I was in the kitchen, Mom and Jenna were still alive."
Stefan sighed and kissed her head. "I'm sorry. How can I help make you feel better?"
Elena sighed again. She cuddled back into his chest. "Just don't make me leave the bed today. Please? I really just want to spend the morning in bed together."
"Fine with me, in fact, if I remember correctly you had a very serious head injury. The cure for that is to spend the rest of the morning cuddling your vampire boyfriend."
"Ugh, do I have to." She teased. "I hate taking medicine."
"I think you'll like this kind."
"Well there has to be more to this medicine than cuddling. That's too easy."
"Well you have to laugh. You know what they say laughter is the bed medicine."
Elena chuckled. "Laugh? Good one Stefan, I just lost another friend, another person I love and care about. For all I know Jeremy is next. You'll be lucky if I smile."
Stefan rolled over so he was on top of her. "I take that as a challenge, my dear, girlfriend, my dear…" he lowered his head to her ear and whispered "…ticklish girlfriend."
Elena squealed instantly squirming under him. He laughed. "I haven't even touched you yet."
"You will."
He laughed again. "Yeah, but you're not going anywhere any time soon so stop squirming, Missy." He started poking her stomach repeatedly making her start giggling. "Oh what is that sound I'm hearing? It can't be a giggle. You just said you'd never laugh."
"I'm not laughing, I'm giggling." Elena giggled fighting his hands away.
"Oh, see that makes more sense now. But don't worry I'll get a laugh out of you."
He stopped poking and started tickling. Elena giggled harder and tried harder at fighting his hands away. "Stefan, stop!"
Stefan shook his head. "Not until I hear a laugh from you."
Elena pressed her lips together and shook her head.
"Oh so that's how you're going to play it."
Elena nodded her head.
"Fine, then I have no choice but to do this." He lifted her shirt and blew a giant raspberry. Elena screamed instantly but forced herself not to laugh. He did it again causing another scream and her trying to push his head away. He grabbed her hands in one of his and continued. He blew another raspberry on her stomach and tickled her sides when his free hand. Elena couldn't hold it back anymore. She burst out into hysterically laughter. "No, no, no!" she squealed in laughter. "Stop, stop, stop!"
Stefan chuckled, blew one more raspberry causing her to scream again and laughter harder, before he finally stopped. "Did this medicine work?" he asked. "If not I know of a great treatment we could try."
"No, no, I'm fine, I'm fine."
Stefan chuckled. He kissed her forehead and rolled back onto his side. "All joking aside, Elena, I know this sounds stupid right now, but I promise it's going to be ok. It's not ok right now, everything stinks right now, but down the road in the near future things are going to get better. I promise."
Elena just nodded. After everything she had been through she had a hard time believing everything would ever be ok again. After all they still had Klaus to deal with.
"I know you don't believe, but that's ok. I understand why you don't."
Elena rolled onto her side to face him. "I love you so much, and I believe you'll do everything to can to make things ok."
Stefan smiled and they kissed passionately.
"Can I ask you something?" Stefan asked.
"Of course, what is it?"
"Why did you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Step in front of me and Damon at the school? That wasn't part of the plan."
Elena quickly rolled onto her other side facing away from him. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes you do. Elena, please, just be honest with me. Why did you do it?"
"It started to feel too real." She choked out. "It was starting to sound like you really were giving yourself over to be killed and it…it scared me." She whispered.
Stefan gently rolled her back over to face him. Her eyes were read and tears were slowly starting to slip down her cheeks. "Elena, none of what I said in there was real. It was all pretend."
"I know that, but at the time I…I just got so scared and I couldn't let you go through with it. I'm sorry."
"Don't be, it's nice have a little protector." He teased poking her stomach. She giggled softly and he wiped away her tears. "Maybe a few months ago when I thought I had lost you forever I might have, but now we're together again and I'm happier than I've been in such a long time. I wouldn't want to leave you. I'd miss you way to too much."
"Yeah, that's what scared me the most. I know you still feel guilty about what you did and when you brought it up I thought you had changed your mind and were really going to let yourself be killed."
"I'm sorry, I knew it would be the best excuse. I didn't plan on using it to upset you."
"I know, I'm sorry I got upset."
"It's ok, it's all over now. Once we destroy Klaus this will all be over."
"What if you're all linked to him?" Elena whimpered.
"It won't matter. Bonnie found a spell to unlink us, all of us, even Tyler, she unlinked all of us except for Klaus and his siblings. So if we kill him, we kill them all."
"Klaus can't be killed."
"We have that right weapon now. We can and we will kill Klaus, that's a promise."
Elena sighed and nodded. "I believe you."
They shared another kiss and cuddled closer. Everything Stefan said was true, he just hoped he could keep his promise.
Just then there was a knock at the door. Damon peeked his head in. "Can I come in? I promise I won't do anything mean."
Elena nodded softly. Damon came in and sat at the end of the bed. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry. The way I acted on the trip to and from Denver, also threatening to feed you my blood again. Everything I've done these past few weeks, I'm sorry. I was just so angry and you know how I get when I'm angry. I didn't ever mean you any harm and I never would hurt you."
"I forgive you, Damon. I'm sorry too. I never meant to hurt you."
"Friends?"
"How about brother and sister?" Elena asked.
"I can work with that."
Elena smiled softly. They hugged each other and Damon left the room.
"Who was that guy?" Stefan joked.
Elena slapped his arm and giggled. "That was the real Damon Salvatore."
Elena smiled. Things were horrible right now but Stefan and Damon were both in her life and she didn't lose either of them. So, things weren't that bad after all. If it wasn't for Klaus, things would be perfect…but how would they get rid of him?
A/N what do you think? I hope all you Damon fans are happy. I told you they'd make up. But just remember I'm a stelena fan for life. Any Damon and Elena moments will be brother/sister. Leave me your thoughts in a review.
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