A/N: Thanks you guys! I love reading all the reviews. Okay, so don't worry. There will definitely be more Kol! I promise, especially with what happens in this chapter. I hope you guys like it even though it's so short. Also, so close to the end of season 2! I hope you guys like the last few chapters of the season! So here it is! Thank you again!

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They were in the living room again and Beth was flipping through her grimoire. Elijah was patiently sitting across from her, watching her as she bit her lip and read. "Elijah. Elena has to be in the sacrifice because she's the doppelganger and Klaus needs her blood right?"

"Yes, that's correct. Why?" He asked.

"I'm alive because of the reincarnation spell done on me, right? That's the only possible reason I can be alive. It says here I could be used instead." She told him. She read him what it said. "Blood of the reincarnated, if willing, could be substituted for any other blood in rituals, sacrifices and spells. It says having to do with the person facing death and having enough strength to come back but this could work! This could save Elena!" Beth told him holding up the book. She didn't notice how his expression became more worried by the minute.

He knew she was hell bent on this. Nothing he could say would change her mind. He knew that she was too stubborn; especially when it came to her loved ones. He glanced down at her wrist and neck and saw she wasn't wearing any vervain. He knew that she would hate him. He was already keeping things from her. About her and their past. But to save her he had to do it.

"Elizabeth. Look at me." He said her name softly and she looked over at him. He locked eyes with her gray-green ones and he gently tilted her chin so she was looking at him before she knew what he was doing he spoke. "You did not see this. You weren't looking through your grimoire. You don't remember us even discussing this. You don't remember."

"I don't remember." She replied in a dazed tone. He sighed, sadly as he let her go. He knew that he had to do this but he felt guilty. The one thing he knew she'd never want was to lose any more memories that she had but he tried to convince himself there was no other way. She blinked and looked up at Elijah. She just remembered them waiting for Elena but he seemed sad. "Everything okay?" She asked concerned as he got up and stood by the lighted fireplace.

"Yes, dear. Everything's fine." He assured her with a smile. They heard the front door open. Elena came in and took off her jacket. Beth looked at her and Elena nodded, telling her everything was fine. "Welcome back."

"Tell us. What's the curse?" Elena asked.

"Please." He gestured for her to sit and she did across from Beth. Elijah sat besides Beth. " My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father's son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline." He admitted. "Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother's lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."

"A war between species?" Elena asked.

"Vampires and werewolves." Beth realized and Elijah nodded in agreement. "So Klaus' father was from a werewolf bloodline? What does that make Klaus? A werewolf or a vampire?" Beth asked. She knew from the look on Elijah's face, the answer wasn't going to be good.

"He's both." He told them standing up. Beth swallowed hard. This was going to make everything much harder. "A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches, the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother's werewolf side would become dormant."

"That's the curse Klaus wants to break?" Elena asked. She was still surprised and was trying to take this all in.

He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf." Elijah explained patiently to them. "If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He'd build his own race. Endangering not just vampires, but everyone."

"But you helped him?" Elena asked.

"I helped him because I loved him." Elijah told them. Beth understood. He was his brother, his family and he'd do anything for him. She couldn't help but wonder what he did to change all that. He stood up and stood near the doorway. "That's changed, now he must die."

"We have the dagger now. We can stop him." Elena encouraged him standing up. Elijah shook his head.

"When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger."

"Ergo, dagger wouldn't work on him." Beth sighed sadly as she stood up too. She was too anxious to sit down. "Are you saying that Klaus can't be killed?"

"There's one way to kill any supernatural species…at the hands of the servants of nature themselves." Elijah told them, looking at Beth. Elena looked at her too.

"A witch if they can channel that much power. But it would kill them." Beth said.

"The curse must be broken during the full moon. When Klaus is in transition. That's when he'll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power... can kill Klaus." Elijah assured her. He wouldn't let her get in harm's way.

"What if we told you we knew another witch that could channel that much power?" Elena asked

"Then I would tell you there's one more thing you should know." He told them. "Klaus was going to sacrifice Katerina but I acquired a way to keep her alive after the sacrifice.

"You found a way to save the doppelganger's life?" Elena asked amazed. This was exactly what she needed. She'd be in the sacrifice but none of her friends or family would get hurt.

" Yes, Elena. I did. But unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her own hands first. I believe you already know how that played out." He said bitterly. He sounded betrayed by what Katherine did more than anything.

"You cared about her, didn't you?" Beth realized

"A long time ago. It's a common mistake I'm told." He said harshly. "One I won't make again. He handed Beth her jacket before he walked off.

Elena and Beth decided that Elijah could be invited in. He gave them a solution to their problem and they came to the terms of their agreement. They trusted him enough to come inside the house. They walked in but they didn't see anyone, they made their way into the library where they heard a loud ruckus. Stefan and Damon were fighting and about to really hurt themselves. "Stop!" Beth yelled at them and they finally let each other go. She rolled her eyes at them.

"Now you've invited him in?" Damon asked annoyed at them.

"Elijah, Beth and I have renewed the terms of out agreement." Elena said to him knowingly. Damon was skeptical though. He didn't trust Elijah at all.

"Really?"

"The two of you will come to no harm at my hands. I only ask for one thing in return." Elijah told them stepping in front to face the brothers.

"What?"

"An Apology." Elijah said simply. Damon looked around, confused. He seriously thought he heard this guy wrong.

Stefan moved forward. "I'm sorry for the part that I played in you death. I was protecting Beth and Elena. I will always protect them." He said confidently and Beth gave him a small smile, which he returned. Damon however was still fuming. Elena wanted to step in before he said anything.

" The sacrifice is going to happen, Damon. Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save my life. I told you I'd find another way. And I did." Elena told him.

Damon narrowed his eyes at Elijah. "Is that true?"

"Yes."

"And you're trusting him?" He asked Elena and Beth. Elena answered him with another yes. He looked upset but he covered it with anger towards them all. "You can all go to hell." Beth felt hurt and Damon saw that and felt guilty but walked out of the room.

"He's angry with me right now. But he'll come around." Stefan assured them. Damon was really angry and Beth wasn't sure if he'd forgive her for this.

"Hopefully." Beth murmured underneath her breath.