Twisted Love
Season Two
The Sun Also Rises
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Caroline and Matt were still locked in the Lockwood ruins trying to stop a werewolf Tyler from getting in and tearing them apart "Caroline, let me help!" Matt begged.
"Get back, I got it!" Caroline assured him.
"Caroline, the doors not going to hold." Matt told her scared for his and her life, one bite and Caroline would be dead.
"Come on! Tyler, please!" Caroline begged when a loud crack of a gun was heard and the bullets shot into Tyler's werewolf form "Matt! No, hey, no! It's Tyler." She reminded him.
"He's trying to kill us!" Matt replied bluntly still holding the gun towards him.
"Wait!" Caroline stopped him seeing that the black wolf was laying on the ground whimpering licking at his wounds "He's wounded."
"Caroline, stay stay." Matt ordered.
"We can go around him." The blonde replied.
"Are you nuts?" Matt hissed.
"You're not going to shoot him again, ok? Matt, take my hand." She begged holding her hands towards him.
Matt took a deep breath and readied his gun, holding his straight out aiming directly at his werewolf best friend "I got it." the human told her.
"Matt, take my hand." Caroline whispered and he looked at her for a second, looking deep into her silver orbs before taking her hand and the vampire whisking him out of the ruins at super speed.
Inside of Alaric's apartment Katherine, Fayth and Damon were looking at the recent werewolf bite that the younger vampire had procured "So that's what a werewolf bite looks like." Fayth mused.
"Yep." Damon nodded.
"It's not that bad." Katherine shrugged.
"Will be." Damon replied as he got up.
"So that's it? You're just... going to die?" Fayth asked surprised that Damon was giving up that easily, he had always been a fighter.
"Well, that depends. You know anything about a cure?" The younger vampire asked and both of the twins didn't answer "Me, either." He grabbed his leather jacket putting it on.
"145 years and no last goodbye?" Fayth smiled.
"You don't get a goodbye." He turned to leave but she was standing in front of him.
"No. Don't leave mad." Fayth told him, Damon wished he had said that to Grace before she walked away to 'think' now she was in Klaus' arms and he was going to die the same way his friend Rose had in pain suffering from horrid flashbacks and delusions.
"Us ending up on good terms isn't exactly on my bucket list, Fayth." Damon told her firmly.
"Klaus made me call Jenna to lure her out. There was nothing that I could do. I didn't have a choice." Fayth whispered.
"That's why I gave you the vervain. So you had a choice." Damon replied.
"It was her or us. I chose her." Fayth told him crossing her arms over her chest.
"I helped you. You owned me. Both of you. Now when Klaus dies, you're going to walk out of here without a scratch and Grace's aunt dies. Somehow you're the two that win. How's that happen?" he growled at the two.
"I didn't let love get in the way." Fayth replied shortly.
"Enjoy eternity together, girls." Damon told them firmly "Cause no one else will even want to know you."
"What are you going to do?" Fayth asked as he walked towards the door.
"I'm going to offer myself as a replacement to Klaus." Damon informed her.
"He won't take you. He saw your bite; he said that your blood is impure. I'm sorry, Damon. But Jenna's dead, there's nothing you can do about it." Katherine explained.
Elena, Grace and Jenna were sitting on the ground by the quarry talking about Jenna becoming a vampire "Oh, my head." Jenna complained "What's wrong with me?"
"Do you remember what happened?" Elena asked carefully.
"Grace called me... you were so scared. Oh, ah, I should have realised that it wasn't you. The second I walked out of the house, someone grabbed me. A vampire." Jenna remembered the scene vaguely.
"Klaus." Grace whispered "It was Klaus."
"He made me drink his blood. And I don't... I don't remember anything after that." Jenna whispered looking around her "Where are we? What happened?"
"We're at the quarry. He brought us here." Elena informed her.
"Why don't I remember anything?" Jenna asked.
"Jenna, do you remember... when I told you how someone becomes a vampire?" Grace asked.
"Yeah, if you die with vampire blood in your system, it's – oh God." Jenna put all the pieces together her jaw dropping "He killed me."
"Jenna, listen to me. Listen to me; everything's going to be ok. I'm going to get us all out of here." Grace assured her.
"I'm a vampire?" Jenna whispered as Greta arrived.
"And I bet your hungry." The witch nodded.
Grace was the first to launch herself at her but Greta was too quick, holding her hand out in front of her Grace was thrown across the clearing onto her back making her groan in pain, she rolled onto her side when suddenly pain trembled through her starting at the top of her head right down to the tips of her toes.
Whilst Greta was distracted with giving Grace ultimate pain the doppelgänger reached over and grabbed a sharp looking rock, but Greta saw and sent her flying across the clearing to before a large ring of fire was set ablaze around her.
"Don't bother trying to get through. I spelled the circle. You're trapped no matter what you do." The witched informed her picking up the sharp rock from the floor continuing making Grace wither in pain on the floor.
"Stop!" Elena screamed and Greta stopped making Grace's body go limp "Greta... Please, just... just let her go."
"Klaus chose her." Greta replied as she slit her wrist letting the blood pour out moving close to Greta, Grace was in too much pain to even try and move and Elena was trapped behind a wall of fire "Drink it."
"Jenna don't!" Grace rasped.
"I can't." Jenna whispered seeing the delicious blood dripping and oozing from the wound.
"Let her go!" Elena demanded but it was too late Jenna zipped towards the witch and began to drink the addictive blood "No!"
"That's enough." Greta pulled away walking over to where Grace was laying and creating a circle of fire around Jenna, it was right next to Elena.
"Look at me. Hey, look at me." Elena whispered to her aunt "It's gonna be ok."
At the abandoned witch house Jeremy and Bonnie were surfing through all of the grimoires trying to find a way to keep Elena from becoming a vampire "This is useless." Jeremy growled "All these grimoires. There has to be something in here to keep Elena from becoming a vampire."
"And we'll keep looking. Until the last minute." Bonnie assured him.
Just outside of the witch house Stefan, Elijah and Alaric were approaching talking about how the ritual was going to happen "The sacrifice is completed in stages as the full moo sets. First the werewolf is killed, the the vampire. Finally the doppelgänger. Once Elena dies, the curse is broken. Klaus will become hybrid." The Original explained.
"So when do we attack?" Alaric asked.
"Elena's death will activate his dormant werewolf side. He'll be vulnerable during this transformation. That's when Bonnie comes in." Elijah replied.
"And you're sure Bonnie will survive this?" Stefan asked concerned.
"If she can deliver him to the drink of death, I'll finish the job myself." Elijah told him firmly as Stefan's phone began to vibrate in his pocket.
"Damon." Stefan answered.
"You're not going to like what I'm about to say." Damon replied.
"Cut to the chase. Is the sacrifice happening or not?" Stefan asked growing impatient.
"It's happening. I tried to stop it, but it got... Complicated." Damon explained vaguely.
"We're sticking with the original plan. We're meeting Bonnie right now-"
"He's got Jenna, Stefan." Damon interrupted him.
"What?" Stefan whispered.
"He got Fayth and Katherine to lure her out of the house." Damon replied and Stefan looked across at Alaric.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Alaric asked confused.
"He's going to sue her as the vampire in the ritual." Damon added.
"Oh my God." Stefan whispered.
Grace was stood up on the altar where Greta had told her to stand, Jenna was sat on the ground in the middle of the circle of fire, her knees pulled up into her chest as Elena stood looking across at Grace "what are we going to do?" Elena thought in her head knowing that Grace could hear "he's going to kill her..."
Grace gave her a panic-stricken look that told Elena she didn't have a plan and she couldn't think of one, she sighed heavily as she turned away trying to think of an idea.
"How are you feeling?" Elena asked Jenna.
"I feel like myself... Only not. Everything is brighter. The fire's hotter. Part of me is terrified, but there's another part of me that doesn't want to feel anything." Jenna whispered huskily.
"Vampires can turn off the part that's human. That's the part that hurts." Elena explained as Grace turned hearing the conversation.
"I'm gonna die, aren't I?" Jenna looked down at the floor.
"No! Jenna, I'm not going to let that happen. I don't care what I have to do." Grace told them both as a scream was heard approaching them.
"Who's that?" Jenna asked.
"That must be the werewolf." Elena mused as Greta arrived with Jules the werewolf fell instantly to the floor screaming in pain.
"What's happening to me?" Jules rasped.
"I cast a spell to slow down your transformation. Your insides are trying to tear themselves free." Greta replied.
"Greta, witches are supposed to maintain the balance in nature. It's your duty to them to keep this curse sealed." Grace whispered.
"My duty is to Klaus! The new order." Greta announced proudly as Klaus stepped out of the shadows.
"Glad to know I still have a dance partner." He smirked in his gruff British accent "Hello, my lovelies. Are we ready"
Caroline and Matt enter the Lockwood Mansion, which was the closest house they could find and shut the door firmly as they walked in, the human went over to the window and saw the Tyler was following them "Do you see anything?" Caroline asked.
"we're not safe in here. If that thing wants in, it's getting in." Matt told her.
"How did you even know what I was? I compelled you to forget!" Caroline spat.
"I was on vervain. I faked forgetting so I could spy on you. It was your mom's idea." Matt quickly replied.
"Wait, my mom nows! Oh my God! You told her. Well, what'd she say?" Caroline whimpered.
"Your mom hates vampires. She grew up hating vampires. She's probably always hate vampires." Matt nodded.
"Well, what about you?" The blonde looked at him.
"What about me?" Matt replied.
"Where does this leave us?" Her voice was low.
"Stuck in a house. Try not to get mauled to death by our friend." Matt stated the obvious.
Across town at the Salvatore Boarding House, Damon pulled on a long sleeved v-neck t-shirt to cover the wound so that no one could see it. The front door was being knocked and he ran downstairs to answer it when he had a dizzy spell making him stumble but open the door to reveal John "Great. I was just thinking about getting a bite to eat." Damon nodded narrowing his eyes at his girlfriends father.
"Elena hasn't returned any of my calls for days, neither had Grace. I need to see them." John told Damon firmly as he walked past him.
"Well, you're a day late and two daughters short, John." Damon told him casually.
"What are you talking about?" John hissed.
"Klaus has them. Sacrifice goes down tonight." Damon replied.
"How could you let that happen? You were supposed to keep Grace safe! Wasn't that the sum total of your plan; to keep her safe? And Stefan was supposed to keep Elena safe, what is wrong with you both?" John growled.
"Elena is safe. I fed her my blood." Damon muttered.
"You what!" John growled "Now both of my daughters are going to be..." He couldn't even bring himself to say the words.
"When Klaus kills Elena in the sacrifice, she will come back to life. Granted, as the thing you hate most in the world, but no one really cares what you think." Damon shrugged as John swung for him but the vampire turned and smashed John back against the wall "You do not want to mess with me right now."
"You ruined her life. You know that, right?" John growled.
"I know, John. Grace has been over this with me. I took her choice, destroyed her future. Trust me, I get it. It actually gets worse." He whispered.
"How could it possibly get any worse?" John asked.
Klaus passed Greta the moonstone and she inspected it smiling at the stone in her hands, such power from beyond this moment "I've got the moonstone. I spent 500 years looking for this. I hate to part with it." Klaus explained.
"Klaus." Grace whimpered "Please let Jenna go. Please... You can take me as the vampire, me in exchange for Jenna, please!"
"Oh, sweetheart." Klaus zipped towards her "What don't you understand about me not letting you go? Do you really think you'd be standing here right now if I didn't want you? You would most certainly take Jenna's place, but..." He takes her cheeks between two of his fingers to make her look up into his eyes "We're going to live out the rest of our lives together..." He moved closer to her face smelling her sweet skin mixed with her sweet blood relishing in the smell and feel of her.
Grace let out a breathy sigh "Klaus, please... I-"
"You need to stop talking until I say you can." Klaus grew tired with her and began to compel her and she soon shut up looking at him with her wide innocent eyes "Stop looking at me like that..." he told her firmly and she gulped "Don't cry." he compelled her "Everything will be over soon, I promise."
Klaus didn't have to compel her to move, she knew the consequences of what would happen if she were to run, Damon would be at risk and she was never in her life risk that... no matter what he had done she continued to love him...
"The moon has passed its apex. Remember everything you need to do?" Greta asked.
"I remember." Klaus replied as he broke away from Grace's hypnotising eyes.
The witch threw the moonstone into a bowl that was on the stone altar and it was instantly destroyed and the ritual was about to begin.
"Everything I did..." Jules screamed in pain as she looked Elena "I was just trying to help Tyler."
"Are you Jules?" Elena asked softly.
"I didn't want him to be alone!" Jules groaned in agony as Klaus walks towards her the circle of fire extinguishing.
"Shall we?" Klaus asked.
Jules rose from where she was crying and took one look at Klaus before making a run for it. Klaus was too quick and pinned her to the floor reaching into her chest, gripping her heart and yanking it violently from her chest putting her out of her misery.
Jenna looked on in shock, this was going to be her next and Elena was equally scared as she looked across at her silent sister who was no longer crying or speaking.
At the abandoned witch house Jeremy and Bonnie were still looking through the grimoires trying to find a spell "Which one are you reading?" Bonnie questioned.
"Emily Bennett's there's a section on spells she did for my ancestor Jonathan Gilbert." Jeremy explained.
"Yeah, I think she had a think for him." The witch teased.
"There's something on a resuscitative spell she was working on." Jeremy looked closer at the page.
"I saw that, too. She just didn't explain what it did, exactly." Bonnie replied.
"Maybe Jonathan wrote about it in his journals." Jeremy suggested "You know, I can have Stefan bring them."
"Someone's here." Bonnie whispered as they heard a noise, Alaric appeared coming down the stairs into the basement.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Jeremy asked.
"You mind if I have a second with Jeremy?" Alaric asked Bonnie.
"Sure, yeah. Of course." Bonnie nodded as she got up and left.
"What's the matter?" Jeremy asked concerned.
"Jeremy... something's happened to Jenna." Alaric's voice was low.
"Why did he take Jenna?" Bonnie asked Elijah and Stefan as they stood outside of the house.
"A punishment for meddling." Elijah replied.
"Klaus was going to use Tyler and Caroline but Damon rescued them." Stefan explained deeper.
"Then we need to go. Now. Before Jenna's been sacrificed. I can kill Klaus myself." Bonnie told them both determined.
"Bonnie... If you use that much power, you'll be dead. We've already been through this. It's not an option." Stefan told her firmly.
"Neither is letting Jenna die." Bonnie growled.
"Well, Stefan would agree with you." Elijah spoke up.
Stefan nodded "We're going to offer another vampire. One that he'll want more. Me..."
Klaus walks back up onto the stone altar towards Greta and holds Jules' heart above a bowl letting the blood pour in mixing with the moonstone "Does that mean it's working?" Klaus questioned.
"It's working." Greta nodded.
Jenna and Elena were sitting in two separate circles of fire talking to each other quietly so that Klaus couldn't hear "The day that the lawyers called to tell me that I was going to become your guardian, you know what my first thought was? Isn't there someone else who can do this?" Jenna admitted to her niece.
"Jenna, there was no one else who could have gotten me and Jeremy through all of that." Elena told her comfortingly.
"It's just the thought that I almost passed up taking care of you." Jenna whimpered.
"But you didn't. You put your entire life on hold to help us. It isn't just that... You didn't just take on Jeremy and I... you took on Grace, Caroline, Bonnie, Matt... Everyone else that we cared about because you cared about us enough to love everyone." Elena replied softly.
"Look around, Elena. I failed you." Jenna hissed.
"No. You didn't. I failed you. I'm so sorry. Listen. Being a vampire, it intensifies your guilt. But it also makes you stronger and faster. You can fight back. I'm gonna get through this. I'll be ok. Grace will live too. I need you to believe that. Promise me, when you get the chance... Run."
"But-"
"Jenna, I can get Grace to distract Klaus for a seconds, but that is long enough for you to get away." Elena whispered "Please, just do it." Jenna nodded "Grace, when it's Jenna's turn... pounce Klaus, he won't hurt you, but it will give her a chance." She looked across at her twin who nodded accepting the challenge.
Caroline was sitting on the couch of the empty Lockwood mansion whilst Matt continued to look out the window to try and see any sign of Tyler or his werewolf form "You don't think I killed him, do you?" Matt asked a level of concern layered his voice.
"No. No. It takes a lot more than wooden bullets to kill a werewolf. He's still out there somewhere." The blonde vampire mused "Do you think my mom wants to kill me?"
"I don't think your mom knows what to do with you." Matt replied.
"Yeah, well, I don't really know what to do with me, either." Caroline replied as a noise was heard from outside.
"What is it?" Matt asked grabbing his rifle.
"Wait. Don't. Don't shoot." Caroline ordered as she rushed to the doors.
"What the hell are you doing?" Matt asked as she opened the doors to reveal a naked, human Tyler laying on the floor.
"Give me you jacket." Caroline ordered.
"What?" Matt asked.
"Your jacket, take it off." The blonde replied and he shrugged it off handing it to her, she instantly dropped to her knees and put it around Tyler coverings his bare skin from the brisk wind that would be nipping at his skin.
"Caroline?" Tyler whimpered looking up into her silvery gaze.
Elijah and Stefan were standing outside of the house and the younger vampire was getting ready to go offer himself to Klaus "Bonnie did the locator spell. They're at Steven's quarry." Elijah informed the vampire.
"I'll head over there first and you'll follow with Bonnie when it's time." Stefan replied.
"Just as the moon hits its final phase. She's to stay hidden until then. He cannot know that she's alive." Elijah told him firmly "You're very honourable."
"Are you? Because this whole plan is, uh, it's contingent upon your honour, Elijah." The younger vampire reminded him.
"I won't fail you." the Original promised.
"Klaus is your brother. I know I've wanted to kill my brother a thousand times. I've never been able to." Stefan told him.
"Well, Klaus was not my only brother. I had siblings; parents. I had a family. Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down on by one and he took them from me. He scattered them across the seas where their bodies could not be found." Elijah replied his eyes full of scorn.
"You want revenge." Stefan whispered.
"Sometimes there's honour in revenge, Stefan. I won't fail you." He nodded.
"Please end this." Stefan replied.
John walks down into the basement where both Jeremy and Bonnie were holding a cardboard box in his hands "I brought the Gilbert journals. I think I know the spell you're talking about."
"Where's Damon?" Bonnie asked.
"Upstairs. Alaric wanted to talk to him." John replied simply.
Alaric and Damon were talking about Stefan going to hand himself over to Klaus in exchange for Jenna, it was obvious that the older Salvatore brother wasn't happy about this.
"He did what!" Damon spat.
"He wasn't going to let Jenna die." Alaric replied.
"We have a witch. She kills Klaus. No one has to die!" Damon growled.
"Except for Bonnie." Alaric reminded him and the vampire punched the wall hard.
"God, Stefan. Damn it!" Damon growled as the pain stung his werewolf bite more than before.
"Hey, are you ok?" Alaric asked concerned by Damon's mood swings and pain.
"I'm fine." He spat "Well, that's my brother for you. Always cleaning up my messes."
"Hello, Jenna." Klaus walked towards the newborn,
"Let her go." Elena begged "I understand that I have to die, but she doesn't!" She took a step closer to the fire and he flared at her making her jump back,
"Careful." Klaus cooed.
"Elena, don't." Jenna whispered.
"No, Jenna! We can't leave Jeremy without a family!" Elena whimpered as she looked across at the blonde Original "I followed your rules; I did everything that you asked. I didn't run and neither did Grace. Please." Elena begged.
"Well, well." Klaus looked across from her up on top of a cliff "I don't recall you being on the guest list." He mused as Elena and Jenna turned to see Stefan at the top of the cliff.
"I'm here to talk." Stefan spoke normally knowing that Klaus would hear him.
"Very well, then." Klaus nodded as he zipped up there to join him "What can I do for you, Mr. Salvatore?"
Damon was down in the basement talking with John, Jeremy and Bonnie about their new plan to keep Elena human "We found something in the Gilbert journals." Bonnie informed him.
"Jonathan journaled the story of a mother who called on Emily's services. The woman's baby was sick; dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child." John explained.
"Skip to the save Elena and Grace doesn't hate me part." Damon hissed.
"well, the child died, but the mother's life force flowed through her, restoring her to life." John added ignoring Damon's comments.
"We already know Elena's going t come back to life but she'll be a vampire." Jeremy shrugged.
"Not if her soul remains intact." John replied.
"her soul, really?" Damon scoffed "You're going to put your faith in some act of God mumbo jumbo?"
"If refuse to let Elena become the thing I've spent my life protecting her against. I've already lost Grace that way. And you can call that God or mystical energy, whatever you want, but yes... I'm putting my faith into it, because I refuse to lose another daughter."
"You haven't lost Grace. She's still here..." Damon replied "it isn't her fault that she is what she is."
"Unfortunately Damon, I don't see it that way. She is a monster... Grace herself may be the sweet kind girl everyone claims she is, but... but that's how I see her."
"How can you say that?" Bonnie growled "That's your daughter."
Elena and Jenna were looking up at Stefan and Klaus who stood up on top of a cliff, Grace had carefully honed her supernatural senses in on what they were saying, it was easier for her, she had been practicing it longer, but she was unable to tell the other two what was going on due to her compulsion.
"What's going on?" Jenna asked.
"I-I don't know. You can hear them." Elena remembered "You can hear anything. Just focus on them."
"You don't need to kill Jenna. I'll take her place." Stefan told Klaus.
"Oh, I don't know. I rather appreciate the symmetry of three woman – three Goddesses – Sacrificed at natures altar." Klaus smiled down at the women.
Grace's eyes grew wide as Stefan told Klaus to take him instead of Jenna, she wanted to scream at him, and hit him, he was like a brother to her, but Jenna was like an aunt to her "What are they saying?" Elena asked Jenna looked at the painful expression on Grace's face.
"I can't... I can't make it out." Jenna winced.
"You can do this. Just relax. Focus." Elena soothed her and Jenna closed her eyes listening out for the males voices.
"don't play games with me. You'll get what you want either way." Stefan growled at the Original.
"I can't hear them. I can hear Stefan." Jenna whispered.
"What are they saying?" Elena asked.
"You're quite the hero, aren't you? I've heard that about you." Klaus mused.
"Just make the trade. Me for Jenna." Stefan ordered and the newborns eyes grew wide.
"Oh my God." The light haired brunette whispered.
"What is it?" Elena looked at her, now she was beginning to get really worried, from what Jenna had said and Grace's facial expressions it must had been bad.
"He wants to take my place." Jenna whimpered.
Caroline walks out of the living room where Tyler was fast asleep to see Matt waiting for her she gave him a small smile "How's Tyler doing?" Matt asked.
"Sleeping." She replied "He should be better by morning. He just... He needs some rest." She added.
"Good. So this is your life now, huh?" The blond boy asked.
"Never a dull moment." She shrugged.
"You know, these last few days with you have been so great, and fun and so Caroline." He nodded and she smiled "I-I thought that I might be able to get past this whole vampire thing..."
"But you can. Matt-"
"I don't know if I can, Caroline." He shook his head.
"Matt!"
"I get it. This is your life now. You know what my life is, Care? My life is an absentee mom. And a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes. But it's my life. And... I think that I just want to live it without all this..."
Bonnie was casting a spell on John whilst he sat there patiently, Damon wasn't being so patient pacing the room checking his phone ever-so-often "Come on, Bonnie, we got a hybrid to kill." Damon growled.
"It's done." She replied.
"That's it? Let's go." Damon told them as he walked from the room.
John opened his eyes to see Damon walked from the room and see Bonnie talking to Jeremy who was sat in silence "I'll be back soon." She told him comfortingly.
"Wait, what do you mean? No, I'm coming. I need to be there. I need to make sure you guys are ok." Jeremy told her firmly, protective over her as he rose from where he was sitting.
"And who's going to make sure you're ok?" Bonnie asked.
"I've got my own ring. Look, I'm not taking no for an answer-" She suddenly kissed him and he collapsed on the floor, John caught him easing his fall.
"Just go. I'll stay with him." John assured her.
Bonnie and Damon walked out of the house to see Elijah and Alaric standing in the hall way about to leave with them "It's time." Elijah noted.
"Alright. I got the weapons in the car." Alaric told him.
"Bonnie's the only weapon with need." Elijah replied as he walked from the house to join the witch and the vampire, as Alaric goes to follow he is stopped by a barrier.
"Bonnie! What is this?" Alaric spat.
"I can't out anyone else at risk." Bonnie replied shaking her head.
"I can't stay here with Jenna out there!" Alaric spat.
"I'm sorry." Bonnie whispered.
"You can't do this! Damon?" He looked at his friend who gave him a look.
"Sorry, buddy. She's right." Damon replied as they turned and left a screaming Alaric inside of the house.
"Elena..." Jenna whispered as she saw his niece pacing around her ring of fire.
"I have to do something." She muttered "This can't happen. None of it." she added as Klaus and Stefan join them.
"Quite the predicament. You know, it's funny, all this talk about preserving family, and here's Stefan, granting your wish." Klaus mused.
Elena looked at her boyfriend "Stefan-"
"It's ok." Stefan nodded.
"Well. Who's it going to be, Elena?" Klaus asked.
"no." Elena refused to pick.
"Oh, don't worry, There's actually no choice." He staked Stefan in that back making him fall to the floor hurt but not dead "I have other plans for you boyfriend. I want him alive. But for now..." He looked over at Greta "Whenever you're ready, Greta." the circle around her disappears "Your turn."
"Jenna, no!"
"It's alright, I know that I have to do." Jenna nodded as she rushed over to Greta tearing into her neck with her newly found fangs, Klaus quickly stepped in and throws Jenna to the ground staking her.
"No!" Elena screamed "Jenna! No!"
When Stefan woke back up from his staking he saw Grace kneeling down by Jenna on the floor a stake in her body, Elena was sitting down too, her knees pulled up into her chest.
"I'm so sorry." Stefan whispered as his girlfriend.
Elena brought her finger up to her mouth and signalled him to shh "are they going to kill him?" she asked and he nodded.
"It's time." Klaus walked over to her making the fire disappear, he takes her hand and leads her up to the altar "Darling, would you like to say goodbye?" he asked Grace and she nodded "You can speak and cry again."
"Elena." Grace whimpered as she hugged her sister "I'm so sorry."
"It's ok. Everything is going to be ok." Elena assured her sister stroking her hair "I promise everything will be fine."
"Don't leave." Grace begged "Please, Elena, please."
"That's enough." Klaus removed Grace "Thank you, Elena."
"Go to hell." Elena hissed at him as he crunched down into her neck she exchanges a look with Stefan as she falls to the ground dead.
"Elena!" Grace screamed.
"I can feel it. It's happening. Yes, yes!" Klaus hollered as his transformation began.
Suddenly Greta fell down to the floor next to Grace dead her neck snapped and the sky began to crack with thunder, deep black clouds rolling over. Klaus was sent flying across the clearing onto the ground as his bones continued to snap and twisted uncomfortably.
"Grace." Damon whispered hugging her knotting his fingers in her deep chocolate brown hair.
"Damon." Grace cried into his neck shivering heavily at the activities going on around her.
"Thank God you're ok." Damon whispered "I was so scared." He admitted.
"You were dead!" Klaus growled at Bonnie as she inflicted him with pain making him call out.
"Elena." Grace whispered picking up with the help of Damon moving her to lay her next to Stefan who was still on the floor with a stake in his back, Damon took it out for him.
"Elena." Stefan whispered "I need you to get them out of here!"
"What about you?" Grace cried.
"I'm not leaving until he's dead." Stefan told her "Go."
Damon pulled Grace up and he then took Elena throwing her over his shoulder and they both zipped off into the forest. Stefan looked over at Klaus who was still being tortured by Bonnie who sent another wave of excruciating pain at her before stopping, Klaus looked weak and close to death as he looked up into the cold eyes of his Original half-brother.
"Elijah?" Klaus rasped.
"Hello, brother." Elijah reached into his chest "In the name of out family, Niklaus-"
"I didn't bury them at sea! Their bodies are safe. If you kill me, you'll never find them." Klaus gave his brother no option, Elijah loved his family more than anything.
"Elijah! Don't listen to him!" Stefan yelled.
"I can take you to them." Klaus promised "I give you my word... brother."
"Do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie threatened.
"You'll die." Elijah warned her.
"I don't care." Bonne spat through her teeth.
"I'm sorry." Elijah nodded at them and before the witch could try and kill them Elijah zipped away with his brother.
Down in the basement of the abandoned witch house John was just finishing off writing two letters as Alaric, Jeremy and himself waited for the return of everyone.
"We should have heard from them by now." Alaric whispered.
Jeremy was continuing to read the journal "Did you real all this?" he asked John.
"I did." John confirmed.
"So you understand what happened to the child's mother after the baby was brought back to life?" Jeremy asked.
"She saved her daughter. She found peace." John replied.
"John-" Jeremy whispered but he held out two letters.
"I need you to give this one to Elena with this." He handed one letter to him with his ring "And give this one to Grace." He handed the boy the other letter.
"Ok, what's going on here?" Alaric asked.
"Take care of each other. Please." John begged.
"I think they're here!" Alaric bounced up the stairs as he heard noise.
Damon laid Elena down on the couch and Grace crouched down next to her brushing her hair back off her face, the older Salvatore brother watched on nervously.
"If you come back as vampire, I'll stake you myself. So don't." Grace warned under her breath.
"Grace, I'm so sorry." Damon whispered "Please forgive me. I need you to forgive me." He couldn't standing to have Grace mad at him before he died.
"I forgive you. I know you were doing it for the right reasons, even if it was a incredibly stupid thing to do." She nodded as she got up and hugged him "I thought I'd never see you again today, I can't bare to think of my eternity without you..."
"How is she?" Jeremy ran in the room followed by Alaric.
"What about Jenna?" Alaric asked.
"Alaric, I'm so sorry." Grace whispered.
"No." Alaric growled as he walked from the room.
"Jer, there was nothing... I-I tried to offer myself, but he wouldn't take me." Grace whispered as Elena awoke behind them with a loud gasp "Elena!" she dove by her side.
"Grace?" Elena touched her face gently "You're alive. You're here."
"I'm here." Grace whispered "How do you feel?" That was the million dollar question.
"I feel... fine." She nodded, no craving for blood for killing people, or crazy emotional mood swings like Damon and Grace would have had when they first turned.
John looked on at them in the hallway watching the twin embrace tight as he walked from the house into the warm morning sun. He took his last breath as he closed his eyes and collapsed to the floor dead.
Caroline was sitting next to Tyler on the couch in the living room of the Lockwood Mansion when he woke up moaning in pain at his aching muscles and almost healed wounds from where Matt had shot him "Oh, yeah. You got shot but it's healing." Caroline informed him.
"You were right. I shouldn't have come home." He whined.
"No, you just... Should have never left. And you shouldn't leave again." Caroline smiled at him.
"You're kidding, right? This is the second time I've tried to kill you." The concern was evident in his voice.
"Well, no friendship is perfect. Matt broke up with me." Caroline sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry." Tyler whispered.
"Yeah, well, you know, instead of just bailing on me again, you could say... 'Thank you, Caroline, for taking care of me. And I'm sorry that I tried to chow down on you again.'" Caroline suggested before they both burst out laughing, unfortunately the vampires laughing soon turned to sobbing.
"Hey. Hey. Come here." Tyler embraced her tightly "Thank you, Caroline. For taking care of me."
"You're welcome." She whispered.
At the Gilbert house after everything had blown over it was the day of Jenna's and John's funeral Stefan and Damon were downstairs looking smart and respectable in their plain black suits with black skinny ties waiting for the girls to finish getting ready.
"we all set?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah. Plenty of room with the Gilbert family plot, and I compelled two of the grace diggers to do the dirty work. How are they?" He asked.
"They just lost someone really important to them. Actually two people that were really important to them. They're in shock..." Stefan replied.
Elena zipped up Grace's black skin tight dress that travelled down to her knee as she looked in the mirror at herself sighing heavily as Jeremy walked in seeing the two, he was also wearing a black suit.
"We're almost ready." Elena told him.
"Take your time." Jeremy replied smiling as he hands them both the letters "John wanted me to give you this... And you this." He handed Elena the Gilbert ring.
"Jeremy... I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you've lost so many people." Elena whispered.
"We all have. It's just important that we're here for each other and are still lucky enough to have each other." He hugged them both tightly before leaving the room.
Grace slowly pealed open the envelope to reveal a hand written letter obviously addressed to her, she scanned over it taking it what John had put as she sat down on Elena's soft bed as Elena looked at hers looking at the Gilbert ring.
Grace,
It is no east task being an ordinary parent to two extraordinary children. Unfortunately I failed in that task...
I want you to know that I never hated you, I love you and your sister very much. It was that hated you for what you were or what you became and I'm sorry if I ever made you feel that way. Unfortunately I can not give you anything special that you can pass on to your children as you and Damon will not be able to bestow that gift to the world, but if you were able to bare a child, it would be an extraordinary child, like you were to me.
I want you to do me a favour, and I know that I have no right to ask that of you, but wish for you to keep your humanity, for however hard it is, or however though it gets, I don't want a emotionless life for you.
There are many regrets that I have to you, for not being able to accept what you are, not being there more, not telling you that I was your father sooner, not being able to save you from dangers in the world, one of which made you lose you life.
I hope I gained a little respect from giving my life source to Elena, as if I had an ounce of your respect and love I would feel complete as a father, but I would also feel as I could not accept that, as I would not deserve it.
You are an unbelievable girl with a huge heart filled with love and Damon is lucky to have you, on the contrary to what you think anything I ever dd to drive you and Damon away from each other was to protect you, but after seeing the length he would go to to protect you please know that I support you and Damon and I want him to know that I know he will treat you right as I feel he loves you so much.
You need to look after you sister and Jeremy in these hard times, you need to protect them and make sure neither of them come to any harm. This is all I wish of you.
Just know, it was not you what I hated it was what you were, that you could change about yourself, something that could not be altered and in a way it is good that I am gone as now you will not seek my approval, as you do not need it.
Your father,
John.
As everyone arrives at the cemetery they arrive at the Gilbert plot Elena was placing roses on Jenna's grave tears rolling down her cheeks, she then moved on to John's and placed a rose on his, then to her adoption mothers and fathers placing roses on them.
Grace was staring down at her adoption mothers and fathers graves that were just across the cemetery after Jenna's and John's funeral was over "And he's really funny, mom, you would have loved him, he's such a gentleman and he would do anything for me... I love him so much and I really wish you could have had a chance to meet him. And don't worry, Dad, he treats be super nice... when he doesn't make crazy rash decisions." She giggled "But he does them for the right reasons, he just doesn't think about the consequences of what he doesn't, but he and I, we've got an eternity to figure out what we want and that's what I really love, knowing I'll never loose him." Grace explained to her dead parents about being with Damon.
"Hey." Damon approached her "Am I interrupting?"
"No." Grace's voice was small "I was just talking to them about you and me..." She shrugged as she rose from where she was knelt brushing her knees off "are you ok?"
"I should be asking you that." Damon placed his arms around her waist hugging her warmly "Well?"
"I've... I've been better." She admitted "I just can't help thinking that it's impossible that I'm here right now, like, I should have been dead months ago... buried next to them..."
"Don't say that." Damon whispered "You're going to have a long, happy life..."
"With you." She whispered leaning up to kiss him "We just have to figure out a way to kill Klaus."
"We sure do." Damon agreed, he still hadn't told her about his fate, he had been bitten by a werewolf and as far as he knew there was no cure, none that he knew of, his heart ached every time she said that they would always be together or something about their future, because with him they wouldn't have a future "I need to go have a walk, is that ok?"
"Sure." Grace nodded "I love you."
"I love you." Damon purred kissing her lips and Grace joined Elena and Jeremy.
"We're going to head back to the house." Stefan explained.
"I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes." Damon replied putting his hands in his pockets.
"Damon, Grace needs you right now." Stefan reminded him.
"And then what's the plan, Stefan? The curse is broken. How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf vamp and his two-faced older brother?" Damon asked.
"I have no idea." Stefan replied.
"We need to get an idea. Fast." Damon replied.
"We will. I'm not going to let Grace or Elena lose anybody else." Stefan told him.
"I wouldn't make any promises, brother." Damon whispered.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Stefan asked creasing his eye brows as Damon pulled up his sleeve to show him the werewolf bite which looked a lot worse than it was before, it was a deep black colour as his veins were visible through the skin.
"Tyler Lockwood bit me. It's actually more of a nip, really, but there it is." He shrugged.
"We'll find something. A cure." Stefan assured his older brother scared that he was to share the same fate as Rose.
"There is no cure, Stefan."
"We kept Elena human, right? We found a way when there was no way. Hey. I will do this." Stefan assured him.
"You want to do something for me? Keep this from Grace. The last thing she needs is another grave to mourn."
"You're not going to tell her?" Stefan asked shocked.
"no, I'm not." Damon replied as he turned and walked away from his younger brother who was clearly upset by the news that his brother was probably going to die.
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Oh no :( poor Damon. So a little Klace in this one, not really romantic or anything but closeness, Drace cute scenes I hope xD I don't really think Grace is going to be very happy when she finds out her boyfriend is dying ;) and that certain people were keeping it from her.
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