AN: here it is the last chapter of The Other Gilbert.

a few housecleaning things then the chapter

1) i have a poll up for my next fan fiction story, (not including the the sequel to this story.) it is Supernatural or Doctor Who (just as a heads up the Supernatural one is a sis fic and Doctor Who is a just an OC one, both will be Canon and an episode by episode thing) or leave it in a Review, or hell do both =)

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5) the way i wrote this chapter differs from the others where i did a personal section but still in third person... think of them more of happening almost at the same time just focusing on what that person is thinking/ doing at the time. its just for this chapter so if you aren't a big fan of it, or if you are and want more chapters like this just note it in your review!

Story Stats are

530 pages (in word)

159,236 words (not including AN)

and 59 Chapters!

so without further ado... The LAST Chapter!

Chapter 59

Elena and Jeremy were sitting in the living room of the boarding house; Cassie's dead body was on the couch.

Stefan and Katherine were in the kitchen when Damon walked in.

"Carol Lockwood was found dead a few hours ago." He said grimly as he plopped into a chair. "Drowned in the fountain in the town square."

Katherine put her head in her hands.

"Tyler?" Stefan asked.

"Mason and Caroline are with him" Damon replied.

"And Ric?" Katherine asked.

"Nobody has seen him since he left the mansion." Damon responded.

"I don't know what to do" Stefan confessed.

"Neither do I" Katherine said.

"We need to call Fell" Damon said. "Its clear that Mikael didn't give her any vampire blood."

"I'll do it" Stefan said leaving the kitchen to make the call.

Damon and Katherine sat in silence for a few moments.

"Please" Damon begging, his voice wavering slightly "please tell me that you two came up with a plan. That that's not Cassie, it's a doppelganger or some witch voodoo."

"I can't" Katherine said, "Because the truth is, never once did I think that Rob would have done this."

"I'm going to kill him" Damon said his voice cold.

"Get in line" Katherine spat back with just as much venom in her voice.

"What do we do?" Damon asked.

Jeremy

Jeremy sat across from Cassie, on the arm of the chair staring at her body.

He hadn't moved since Stefan had walked in with her body.

"Please" he said, "get up. Cassie, I need you please" the tears finally spilling over. "Get up"

He felt a hand on his shoulder; he looked up and saw Katherine looking down at him, tears in her eyes.

"She's not getting up," Jeremy said seeing the look in her eyes. "Is she?"

"No" Katherine said, "She's not"

Jeremy turned back to his sister.

Katherine sat on the table next to the couch, taking her hand.

"I'm sorry" she said the tears finally falling "I didn't mean it. You know I didn't"

Jeremy felt like he should give the two friends some time but he couldn't work his muscles.

"You got me to cry," Katherine confessed, "I haven't cried since they took my baby away." She paused for a moment. "Your suppose to comment on that" she said sadly "you would slap my hand away and say how this feeling was always there. I was just hiding from it"

But Cassie didn't move.

Katherine sat there for two more minutes for the reality of the situation to sink in. when it did she got up and turned to face Jeremy "if you need something" she said looking up at him "anything, whether its help for the cure or a question about being a hunter call me"

Jeremy tore his gaze from Cassie to Katherine and for the first time he felt like he knew exactly whom she was.

She wasn't Katherine Pierce, the seductress who tore apart the Salvatore's.

She wasn't Katarina Petrova the human doppelganger who was a pawn in Klaus's plans.

She was Rin, Cassie's best friend and sister.

And she was lost; she didn't have anyone to expect the best out of her. Didn't have that person who she knew that no matter what would help her despite the situation.

Jeremy nodded "I will, and if you need someone" he said.

Katherine looked shocked at him but recovered quickly and nodded and then she left.

Jeremy went back to staring at Cassie.

"Jeremy" Elena said walking back in with Stefan and Dr. Fell "its time"

Jeremy nodded and signed the papers to release Cassie's body to the doctor.

Katherine

She was gone that was the only thought going through Katherine's head.

Well she was gone and how she was going to kill Rob, then Faye, then Mikael.

She felt so guilty, as the words that she had spoken to Cassie ran through her head.

When she said that she was angry and hurt. Cassie knew that, Cassie always knew that was how Katherine lashed out when she felt human. But Cassie wasn't here to forgive her this time.

And it killed her more than it should.

She walked up to Cassie's room and laid on her bed, the tears falling as she curled in her sister's sheets.

She gave the offer to help to Cassie's brother, she had too, he was lost. And so was she if she was honest with herself.

After the tears had finally stopped, Katherine made her self get up and start to pack. All of Cassie's information needed to be collected and hidden; she knew she had to report Cassie's death to the council. They needed to be aware that another potential gets to become a hunter.

So she packed her clothes and left.

She didn't think that she would ever come back.

Elena

Elena walked into Stefan's room, she heard him talking to Dr. Fell.

When he hung up he turned around and saw her.

"Elena" he said.

"She's really gone," Elena said softly.

Stefan sat down on the edge of his bed and patted the edge of the bed for Elena to sit.

Elena walked hesitantly over there and sat down.

"I was supposed to have one hundred and fifty years," she said, "to make up how much I screwed up."

Stefan grabbed her hand.

"I am the oldest now" Elena said, "I have to care of Jeremy"

Stefan squeezed her hand.

"I don't, I don't know what to do" Elena said as she started sob.

Stefan wrapped her in his arms and held her as she sobbed.

When she managed to stop she pulled back to face him.

"I'm sorry" Elena said. "For everything I've done to you"

"Shh" Stefan said soothing her "its ok, your were compelled to forget me I didn't take anything to heart."

"I have to be strong," Elena said whispering to him "for Jeremy, I have to be strong for him and I don't know how. Because I feel like I'm falling to pieces."

"Take care of yourself" Stefan said, "You have us to help you and Jeremy."

Elena nodded, she licked her lips, and stared up at Stefan "so are we?" she began "can we?"

Stefan looked down at the girl he loved, yes still loved her. Despite everything he heard from everyone. He still loved her.

"Yes" Stefan said

Elena smiled and the two of them kissed for the first time in a long time.

Dr. Fell came and Elena had to sign the papers, but Jeremy had to as well.

"I'm sorry" Dr. Fell said seeing the young broken girl.

Elena just nodded, and the three of them walked into the living room.

Elena saw her younger brother still sitting where he had been since the beginning. Her heart broke and she tried to find the words to say that would get a response from him.

Not being able to find the words she just went with the information.

"Jeremy" she said.

She saw Jeremy look up at her. "We have to sign the papers," she told him

Damon

Failure.

That word had never affected Damon as much as it did today.

His father had screamed it at him when he told him he didn't want to fight in the war.

His teachers had told him when he didn't want to apply his knowledge to his work.

But today, he was a failure to Cassie.

He failed her in the task he gave himself.

To keep her safe.

He wanted to drink. He wanted to lose himself.

He wanted to never feel ever again.

Damon sat in the kitchen; he had so much to say to her. But how to say them?

How was he going to say how sorry he felt, how much it hurt to think that he couldn't save her.

How much he loved her.

He could hear everything that was going on in the living room. But he didn't care.

And the he heard they were taking away her body.

He got up and walked into the living room "wait" he said.

The four of them stopped talking and looked up at Damon.

"Can I?" he said looking at Cassie's body.

"Yes" Elena said taking Stefan's hand and leaving the house.

Jeremy and Dr. Fell went into another room so Jeremy could sign the papers.

Damon took the seat next to Cassie, where Katherine had sat early.

"I was going to tell you" he said "when we were drowning our sorrows that night. That when you daggered Mikael the compulsion broke, and everything." He trailed off his thoughts taking over. "Everything that I felt came rushing back. But, that's ok it didn't even needed to happen because somehow I fell for you again. You with your impossible ways to calm and keep control and just some how get it."

He took her hand and played with her fingers.

"I love you" he said, "I love you Cassandra Gilbert. And I'm so sorry. I told you that I was going to watch your back, and I didn't. And I want nothing more than to drink and check out and not feel anymore."

He paused for a second. "I can just see you now, you would slap the back of my head and tell me that I cant, I cant run away because they need me here. I know what the plan is and I have to stay and watch your family."

"I will" he whispered "watch out for them, I don't know where your dad is right now but I will keep my eye out for Elena and Jeremy. I'll babysit the kids"

He dropped a kiss onto her forehead "goodbye Cassandra, I fully expect you to be watch my hot ass from above"

Damon got up and left walking back into the room where Jeremy and Dr. fell were.

"You can take her," he said. Dr. fell nodded and got up leaving Jeremy and Damon alone.

"Um" Damon said scratching the back of his neck "listen, any expenses you need, for anything. School, the fun-funeral. Just let me know and I'll take care of it."

"I don't need a hand out" Jeremy said, "I can work."

"Then work" Damon said "and save that money for your life after college, but let me help get to that point."

Jeremy considered what he was saying and nodded "thanks" he said.

Damon nodded and turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" Jeremy called

"I got to go find Ric" Damon said.

Alaric

Alaric woke up in his loft.

He looked down at his clothes; he was still in his tux.

However his tux was covered in dirt and blood.

And he didn't remember how it got that way.

In fact he didn't remember how he even got to his loft.

All he remembered was that his daughter was dead.

Gone.

He found her after searching for years, he found her built a relationship with her.

And then he lost her.

He could still see her body on the ground; hear the screams that tore from his voice as he saw her.

Alaric changed into some new clothes and then just sat at his table.

His baby girl was gone.

He saw the tears hit the table before he realized he was crying.

He felt hollow, the feeling the same as when he first lost her and Isobel. Hollow and anger, he heard the last words Mikael spoke to Klaus. She was killed for revenge, no simple reasons other then that. she was a pawn. A way for Klaus to feel pain.

A means to his end.

And the anger boiled in him, and if he was honest he didn't know whom he was angrier at.

He heard a knock at a door and Damon walked in.

He sat down across from Ric.

"She didn't wake up" Damon said.

"I knew she wouldn't" Ric said not trying to hide his tears from his best friends. "You weren't there you didn't hear that bastard."

"I still hoped" Damon said quietly "that maybe she would be one step ahead."

"I blacked out again." Ric stated, "There was blood all over the tux."

"If you killed any of the Mikaelsons without me" Damon tried to joke but it died, his heart just wasn't in it.

The two men sat in silence, Damon knowing he had to tell Ric the news.

"They released her body." Damon said, "Dr. Fell has her"

Alaric's head snapped up "what?" he asked. "I didn't, I didn't" he trailed off.

"Ric?" he asked.

"I didn't get to say goodbye." Alaric said.

"I know," Damon said "and I told Dr. Fell that, she won't do anything until you say goodbye but we needed to get her body off the couch. Jeremy couldn't take it anymore."

Alaric nodded and got up, on autopilot not paying any attention to what he was knocking over as he grabbed his keys and wallet.

"Ric" Damon said grabbing the keys "I'll drive"

Alaric looked at his friend for a while with a blank stare, not registering what Damon was saying.

"Your not in the right mood to get behind the wheel." Damon reiterated.

Alaric nodded and the two of them got in the car.

They arrived at the morgue; Dr. Fell met them at the door and led them to her.

Damon and Dr. Fell left Alaric alone in the room with her.

"Hey baby girl," he said walking over to her. He tucked in a stray piece of hair into her ear.

He paused as if for her to respond.

"I'm sorry for not finding you soon" he said grabbing her hand, letting go quickly because it was too cold for it to be Cassie.

"I'm sorry for not being able to scare away your boyfriends, or helping you with your homework or school projects. When you told me that you were at Duke I was so proud. I never told you that. But I am, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of the way you handled everything that life threw at you. The way you helped Jeremy and Elena." He said tears coming down his face as he spoke to his daughter.

Alaric pulled out a charm bracelet and clipped it on her wrist.

"Merry Christmas sweetheart" Alaric said. "This the bracelet that I gave to you when you were one, on your first Christmas. Our first Christmas back together I thought it was a good idea."

He leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"I love you baby girl" he said then he turned to walk out of the room.

Rebecca

Rebecca had been moving since last night. Well, since she pulled her brother from Cassie's dead body.

No her voice in her head yelled at her don't think about it, you can't.

And her voice was right.

There was no way she could think about it right now.

Not that her older sibling had killed her best friend.

Not that her brother was completely shattered.

None of it, at all.

Not a single thought.

For fear that she would break.

She picked up the entire ballroom, from her party, and then she cleaned the house.

Every blind, every step, every particle of dust was clean in that house.

So she started to do laundry.

"Becca" Elijah's voice called softly from behind her.

"No" Rebecca said.

"Rebecca" Elijah called again coming closer to her in the laundry room.

"Its our fault" Rebecca said throwing the clothes on the ground, spinning to turn to her older brother. "It is our fault that she is dead, that Alaric has to bury his daughter, that Elena and Jeremy don't have their older sister."

"No its not" Elijah tried to say.

"Don't say that you know it's not true." Rebecca said, her voice deflating losing all of the emotion she had.

She snuck down to the floor.

Elijah sat next to her on the ground.

"I'm so tired" Rebecca said.

"Well, you have been going none stop for fourteen hours" Elijah said.

"I can't stop" she said, "I can't,"

"I know" Elijah said grabbing her hand.

"Lijah" Rebecca said, her tears starting to bring up in her eyes.

Elijah put his arm around his little sister.

"I trusted him" she finally broke down sobbing into her brother. "Rob, I trusted him"

Elijah just held his sister as she finally let her self break down, not be the prim and proper shell she keeps up all the time.

In the laundry room surround by dirty clothes, that was where Rebecca finally lost it.

Kol

Kol hadn't stopped moving like Rebecca, but he was running.

Through the town and out to the clearing. From the clearing to the lake house.

Anywhere and everywhere, he could go he ran.

And if he was honest to himself.

He was looking for his siblings and parents.

Because he was going to kill them.

He was going to kill the people he dared to call family, to love and trust them and he was going to kill them.

For taking away his little sister.

Because that what Cassie had become to Kol, his little sister.

Cassie and Rebecca the two of them were the only one of his siblings that he was younger then. . Rebecca was crushed and Klaus, he shuddered to think what had happened to his brother who he looked up to. And he took that seriously, they were his family.

And someone had hurt his family.

And they needed to pay.

He didn't know how, but he was going to figure it out.

He was going all out.

Revenge was on his mind.

Klaus

She was gone.

Never coming back

She was gone.

And she was never coming back.

Cassie

She was falling. That was all she knew, she was falling and didn't know where she was going to land.

When she did, she closed her eyes and drifted off.

She finally opened her eyes, seeing she was in a white room, and that white almost hurting her eyes.

She rolled over, groaning as she felt her muscles stretch.

She got on her knees and looked at her surroundings.

She was in a knee length white dress, her hair was clean and hung in her natural curls and she was barefoot.

She didn't know where the ceiling ended and the floor began.

"Are you Cassandra?" a melodic voice came from behind her.

"Who are you?" she asked her nerves on edge.

"Are you Cassandra?" she asked.

"I don't, I don't know" Cassie admitted.

The girl before her gave her a sad smile.

"Do you remember what happened, or where you are?" the woman asked.

Cassie thought for a moment trying to think about what had happened.

"No" she said starting to panic.

"Its alright" the women said stepping forward to grab her hand. "Your name is Cassandra"

"Ok," she said "and who are you and why am I here?" Cassie asked her.

"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry." The women said grabbing her other hand "but my name is Anita, and your dead."

AN: GASP what? lol so the last authors note for this story...

i wanted to show off what each character was thinking/ feeling i think i did well the only person i had trouble with was elena and honestly i have had a heard time writing for her the entire story. its not that i don't like Nina because i think she is a great actress i have a problem with Elena, even when i read the books i had a problem with her character. so i wanted to show that she is the feels bad for not being able to make it up to her sister, and that she needs stefan there with her, because now that the compulsion is gone its Stefan, it will always be Stefan with her.

so there we go.

Cassandra Gilbert will return in:

The Other Gilbert: New Beginnings.