Twisted Love
Season Three
Before Sunset
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
The new vampire Alaric was sat at his desk in his old class room at Mystic Falls High, feet propped up on the desk in front of him as he twirled the indestructible expertly in his hands before he stopped and placed it on the desk looking at it as he heard Grace speaking on her phone as she entered the school.
"Yeah, sure, Care I'll go in and clean up and then I'll head over to Elena's, see how they're both getting on." Grace told her blonde friend over phone, Caroline had been too busy dealing with some private things to be able to head to the clean-up committee for the school. "Don't worry, Care. The school will be absolutely spotless." She answered grinning to herself as she slid her phone back into her pocket there was a noise behind her, as she turned around Alaric zipped past at his new supernatural speed, the brunette turned back surprised but saw no one there.
"Hello?" The young vampire called as she walked into the cafeteria to see that Rebekah was in there cleaning up the mess from the dance, the Original hadn't even attended the dance so Grace was surprised to see her here helping tidy. "Where's Matt?" She looked around for the blond boy but he was nowhere to be seen.
"He bailed." Rebekah answered as she threw trash into a bin bag. "Got called into work at the last-minute."
"Are you kidding me?" Grace moaned as she covered her eyes for a moment, just these two vampires that didn't get on very well at all left in a room to tidy it. "So, it's just us?"
"Yes, buddy, and you're late." Rebekah answered giving her a deathly look as she pranced around the room cleaning more getting the fact that her mother was dead and had used her off of her mind. "Clean up committee started at eight o'clock."
"Bekah, it's like 8:02." The younger blonde answered creasing her eye brows confused about what had got the Original into such a bad mood, she knew that her mother was dead, but all the Originals hated her.
"Exactly." Rebekah snapped narrowing her icy blue eyes at the young vampire. "I managed to turn up on time and I didn't even get to attend the dance that I organised!" She answered and finally Grace saw what the Original was so pissed about.
"I'm sorry about your mom." Grace muttered as she cleaned the tables looking over timidly at the blonde, trying to choose her words carefully. "I mean, I know you like, hated her and everything, but still... I'm sorry." She nodded respectfully.
"I'm sorry about your teacher." Rebekah looked over mournfully at Grace who nodded gratefully, Niklaus had told her the story and honestly wasn't surprised to the length their mother would go to rid them of their immortal lives. "He seemed like a nice guy."
"Yeah." Grace nodded running her hands through her chocolate-brown locks. "He was." They exchanged looks and the Original froze as she noticed she might actually like this girl.
"Listen, about what Nik did to you the other night..." Rebekah paused as she walked over to the small brunette. "He doesn't mean it. He just has a terrible temper that gets the better of him."
"I appreciate that you're trying to... trying to stick up for you brother, Rebekah. But I don't know if I could ever forgive him for what he has done. I think he needs to move on, and you need to help him." Grace gave her a pleading look as Rebekah sighed a bit nodding.
"Yeah, well, I'm going to go get started on the gym." Rebekah told her firmly as she walked from the room down the hallway surprised when Alaric came around the corner making the Original stop in her tracks. "You're supposed to be dead." She growled at him through her teeth.
"I am." Alaric confirmed as the blonde rushed for him but he used his new-found strength to throw her back against the wall like she was a rag doll, she let out a gasp as he pulled his arm back about to stake her with the white oak, but a small chocolate-brown haired saviour pinned him against the lockers.
Rebekah looked over seeing that Grace was struggling to hold him down any longer, she grabbed the stake from the floor and shoved it into his chest, they exchange a look before bailing out and running outside.
Alaric growled as he struggled to pull the stake from his chest, as he did he stalked outside to see Grace trying to get her key in the lock of her car, the new vampire reached out and snapped her neck with ease before dragging her back into the school ignoring the burning smell of his own flesh from the burning sun.
Not much later that day Stefan arrived at the Gilbert house they walked into Alaric's old room to smell paint fumes, seeing all the decorating going on by both Jeremy and Elena. The wall that was a usual cream colour was now turning into an almost dark hazel colour.
"Going darker, huh?" Stefan questioned as he watched Elena through a dust sheet over an old armchair that had been in there years, she looked around at the choice of colour nodding carefully.
"It's the only colour we had." Elena answered.
"That's what happened when you decide to pain your dead guardian's room in the middle of the night." Jeremy informed them all as he walked around the room with a step-ladder reaching the spots that Elena couldn't.
"I don't suppose anyone tried to talk you guys out of doing this so soon." Stefan looked at them both and they put their heads down shaking them.
"We have to keep moving." Elena told him in a firm voice as she walked around the room once looking at all the work she had to do. "Otherwise we'll start thinking and we don't want to think."
"Want a hand?" Stefan questioned with a kind smile, it was all he could do at the moment, just go along with whatever it helped to get them through this.
"So, are you two like back together or something?" Jeremy asked they both glanced at each other smiling a little before shrugging like children.
"I-I was just checking up on you guys." Stefan answered his question giving a sly look to Elena who blushed ever so slightly. "Seeing how you were doing, after everything."
"We're fine!" Jeremy snapped at the vampire who took it "But, if you are trying to be the good guy again, why don't you do the right thing and give us one day. Just one day without any vampires in it!" He added as he stormed out of the room.
"He didn't mean that." Elena told them both solemnly with a look filled with sorrow that he brother had snapped at them both like that, but his wounds were still sore and open, he was just taking it out on the closest thing to him. Family.
"Yeah, yeah he did." Stefan muttered as he tucked a single strand of her chocolate-brown locks behind her ear as the door bell rang downstairs. "I'll go and get that." He removed herself from the room as he jogged down the stairs opening the door to reveal Damon holding Bonnie by her forearm, a bite mark on her neck which was still fresh dripping with blood.
"We have a problem." Damon informed him giving the witch a deathly look as she gave Stefan an apologetic look.
Klaus was packing things away into a box getting ready to leave Mystic Falls for good, he didn't want to stay here any longer he was done with this town, more than ready to leave.
"Alaric Saltzman just tried to kill me." Rebekah walked into the room where he was boxing up his paintings, outrage in her voice as she stared her older brother down.
"Alaric Saltzman is supposed to be dead." Klaus answered looking over at her with seriousness in his mixed coloured orbs but she shook her head.
"Well, he's not and he's a vampire thanks to mother's spell with a white oak stake that can't kill him." There was a level of fear behind Rebekah's angered voice, she had to admit he could take them all down without even breaking a sweat. "He's strong, Nik. Too strong."
"Where is he now?" Klaus questioned placing the last of his own creations into a box and sealing it looking over at his scared blonde sister, he could see past her anger into her terrified orbs.
"He's stuck at the school without a daylight ring, but as soon as night falls he'll come after us. We need to leave now." She told him about to walk away to pack her things, but what her brother said made her stop in her tracks.
"Fine." He accepted that she needed to get out of this godforsaken town "I'll collect Elena, we'll be on our way."
"Forget Elena!" Rebekah roared as she turned back to face her hybrid brother "You don't need any more stupid hybrids!"
"What I need is protect from Esther's continued assaults against us." Klaus countered as he squared up to her, but she shook her head tears lining her eyes, they had lived 1000 years she wasn't about to let some stupid history teacher end her life now.
"We'll protect each other, like we always have." Rebekah promised as a single tear slowly slid down her face she whipped it away with the back of her hand. "Always and forever, Nik." She reminded him of their little saying for being a real family.
"I am not leaving without her." Klaus answered as he grabbed his coat but his blonde sister took a step in front of him holding his shoulders.
"I'm leaving now." She told him in a firm voice, he had to make a decision it was his hybrid family or his real family. "You can either walk out that door with me or you are on your own." She threatened and when he didn't respond she nodded backing away from him. "Fine. Trust your hybrids over your own family." She growled shaking her head in disappointment "Let your spite be the death of you, see if I care." She stalked out of the room barging into Tyler on her way out. "Move it, sire boy!" She roared as she walked away.
"What's her deal?" Tyler questioned as he placed a box on the floor by his feet, Klaus was gnawing on his bottom lip carefully trying to decide on what to do.
Bonnie, Damon and Stefan were all in the Gilbert kitchen discussing what had happened the night before, with the young witch doing the Original witches bidding by bring Alaric back to life, this could be the end of them. The younger Salvatore brother handed her a towel for her bleeding neck wound.
"What do you mean he turned?" Stefan whispered as she looked over at the witch massaging his temples in frustration, everything was supposed to go off without a hitch, things like this were not meant to happen. "I thought you were standing guard!" He vented as he looked over at his older brother who held his hands up innocently glancing down at the witch who sat there tending to her own wound.
"Don't blame me." Damon answered looking at the angry vampire. "Blame Bonnie the blood bank, she fed him."
"I had no idea what was happening." Bonnie answered shaking her head lightly but the two vampires gave her a questionable look. "Ok, the witches led me there. They wanted him to feed so he turned."
"So, where's the stake now?" Stefan asked, that was the most important thing surely, knowing the whereabouts of the one things that could end their vampire bloodline if it got into the wrong hands. Like vampire Alaric's hands.
"Oh, you mean the white oak one?" Damon asked sarcastically as if he actually meant any other stake. "The one that can kill an Original and wipe out an entire line of vampires? We don't know." He glared down at the young witch who had enough of his filthy glances.
"If you are so upset with me, why did you feed me your blood to save my life?" Bonnie growled up at him with a sinister look in her light brown orbs.
"Because I do stupid things, Bonnie." The raven haired vampire answered narrowing his icy blue orbs. "I do things, like let my friend die with dignity when I should have just killed him!" It was obvious that icy blue-eyed vampire was blaming himself for what was happening to Alaric.
"Alright, so how do we kill him now?" Stefan questioned, he knew how hard it could be to even attempt to kill an Original vampire.
"I've been trying to figure that out." Bonnie answered nodding her head. "A witch can't truly make an immortal creature, there is always a way to undo the spell."
"So, what's the witchy work around?" Damon asked in a low voice looking down at the witch who gave him a timid look.
"That's the problem. I don't know."
Elena was upstairs redecorating Alaric's old room when her phone began to vibrate in her pocket, pulling it out she looked at the caller ID and it read Alaric. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the name flash up, but then anger crawled up in her making her cheeks turn and violent red, someone was playing a sick joke on her and it wasn't funny.
"Who this is, it's not funny." Elena spat as she answered the phone call, but her breathing got caught in her throat when the voice replied.
"Well, who else would it be?" Alaric answered with a small smirk pulling over his lips as he sat in his old teaching room at the school.
"Ric?"
"Listen closely, I'm at the school, I have Grace, and if you want to keep her alive, I need you to get in your car and come down here right away." Alaric threatened as he looked down at Grace who was sitting at one of the desks, her hands were nailed to the wood with pencils and there was a vervain drenched cloth around her mouth. "If you tell anyone where you are going, I will kill her."
The doorbell rang to the Gilbert house and Jeremy ran to answer it, when he opened the door he saw Klaus standing there with a sick smirk on his lips.
"What the hell do you want?" Jeremy hissed narrowing his hurt orbs at him, his mouth was a firm line.
"Now is that any way to treat a guest?" Klaus teased as he stood crossing his arms over his chest when his ex friend came to the door with anger in his forest green orbs.
"What are you doing here, Klaus?" The younger Salvatore brother growled at him.
"Well, for starters, young Jeremy here should show some manners and invite me inside." Klaus smirked at the youngest Gilbert sibling as Damon approached the door opening it wider as Stefan moved in front of Jeremy.
"Why don't you go up to your room?" Stefan suggested looking over his shoulder at the young teen who stood in place, Damon looked down at him giving him a stern look.
"Now." The gorgeous blue-eyed vampire added and Jeremy sighed as he stormed up the stairs.
"Hm, poor lad. Loses one questionable father figure only to be replaced by the likes of the two of you." Klaus eyed them up and down shaking his head slightly.
"Yeah, about that. Something happened." Damon informed him as if he didn't already know that Alaric was now a crazy Original vampire that was going to kill them all.
"Oh, I know all about my mother's indestructible little creation and that's why I'm here." Klaus grinned at them both. "I'm leaving town, just need to pick up a few road trip necessities. Spare tire, flashlight, doppelgänger."
"Can't help you there." Stefan retorted as his older brother clapped him on the shoulder pulling him back into the house shutting the door on Klaus who stared at it angrily. "Call Grace." He ordered Damon as he turned around.
"You mean that Grace isn't here?" There was a level of anger in Damon's voice, how could he just come over here without knowing where Grace was at all. He had figured Grace was upstairs comforting Elena.
"Elena." Stefan jumped up the stairs two stairs at a time to run into Alaric's old room to see on Jeremy in there decorating. "Where is she?"
"I don't know." Jeremy admitted looking around the room "She was just here a few minutes ago."
Stefan growled under his breath as he took off back down the stairs seeing Damon trying to get through to Grace's cell phone. "Grace, pick up. Now." He ordered but still no one picked up.
"Nothing?" Stefan questioned looking over at the distort blue-eyed vampire.
"Why didn't you meant Grace wasn't here until now!?" Damon flew across the room at his brother knocking them down until Bonnie pulled them apart.
"What's going on?" The young witch questioned looking at them both.
"Elena isn't here and Grace is nowhere to be found." Stefan informed her and she closed her eyes for a minute sighing a bit. "Where would she go?"
"Klaus wants in." Damon informed them all as he looked through the blind in the living room to see Klaus pacing outside with a newspaper in his hands "We have to keep him out." He saw Klaus draw his arm back and launch the newspaper through the window. "Duck!" The window smashed and the paper flew into the living room at a murderous pace, the raven haired vampire ducked down and Stefan grabbed the young witch making them duck.
Alaric was sitting at his teacher desk looking at Grace who was sobbing into the vervain cloth around her mouth, looking into his emotionless eyes pleading him with her eyes, but he wasn't letting up.
"Right on time." Alaric noted as he heard Elena walk into the school, she could hear Grace's soft whimpers and run towards where the noise was coming from, walking into the room she saw her twin nailed to a desk looking at her with a begging look in her eyes.
"Grace." Elena whispered as she looked over at Alaric who still sat casually at his desk "Let her go, Alaric!"
"Free her yourself." He nodded towards the weak brunette with a sinister look in his eyes, Elena hesitated but ran over to her twin crouching down next to her.
"I know it hurts, I know." Elena cooed her as she rubbed her arm pulling the wooden pencils out but suddenly they slammed back in making Grace scream in agony she looked up to see Alaric standing there. "You said that you would let her go!" She yelled as she stood up.
"How many times do I have to tell you, Elena? Stop trusting vampires!" Alaric growled at the girl.
Klaus was standing outside of the Gilbert house on the front lawn looking at the regular sized home with a deathly look in his eyes. "I think you're probably going to want to let me in!" He called to them knowing they could hear.
When no one came out to see him he growled under his breath walking over to one of Elena's neighbours fence looking around he saw a football and he smiled to himself walking towards it.
Bonnie, Jeremy, Stefan and Damon were standing in the kitchen, the raven haired vampire was still trying to get through to Grace's cell, but she continued to not pick up and he just knew something was wrong, she never ignored his calls.
"Elena's car is gone." Stefan informed them as he glanced outside onto the street to see that her car was no longer parked there.
"Why wouldn't she tell anyone where she was going?" Bonnie questioned aloud when suddenly a football tore through the house at lightening quick pace, Damon looked through the doorway from where he stood in the kitchen.
Klaus approached the doorway and fired two wooden fence piece in one at a time, narrowly missing Damon's head sticking into the wall behind him, the younger Salvatore brother grabbed the witch and the human making them get down.
"Missed me!" Damon taunted as he pulled the white picket fence out of the wall behind him and launched it back, it missed him by inches grazing over his shoulder. Klaus growled as he snapped his other picket into two and launched one in, Damon was forced to duck this time and it hit the picture behind him smashing it into pieces. "Missed me again!" he called as Klaus aimed the last picket into the house.
Stefan's phone rang among the chaos of the house being torn apart by Klaus and defended by Damon, he pulled his phone out and answered the call with a low growl. "Alaric."
Klaus approached the Gilbert house once again with a propane tank and newspaper that was rolled up and on fire, he was going to use that as a match to burn down the house. "Put it out." Stefan ordered as he appeared at the front door.
"Come outside and make me." Klaus answered with a smug smile, but to his surprise the younger vampire took a step outside.
"Elena's not here. Alaric has her and Grace and he's going to kill them both unless you turn yourself over to him." Stefan explained in a fast voice he knew that mentioning Elena close to death was pretty good, no Elena, no hybrid. But Grace being there was just the icing on the caking, Stefan saw the torn look in his mixed coloured orbs.
He threw the fire and the propane tank to the ground admitting defeat as he looked into the young vampires forest green orbs. "Now, I know you're not asking me to walk into a certain death."
"I really wish we could." Stefan countered narrowing his bright eyes. "But unfortunately, if Alaric kills you there's a one in four chance that we die too."
Damon sauntered out with a white picket that Klaus had used to kill him over his shoulder casually as he stared the other vampire down. "I'll take those odds." His younger brother through him look.
"And a hundred percent chance that Tyler dies." He countered thinking that the fate of the young hybrid actually mattered to Damon.
"I'm good with that too." He shrugged his shoulders carelessly.
"Why don't we just figure out a way to put Alaric down?" Stefan questioned and the three vampires began to think, pacing around the porch when Klaus stopped with a smile.
"Ok, how about Damon sneaks in and distracts Alaric, while Stefan grabs Elena and I'll grab Grace and carry her to safety." Klaus suggested and Damon narrowed his icy blue orbs.
"Huh, that's a great idea. What's to stop me from being killed instantly." Damon looked over at him but the hybrid just shrugged his shoulders cluelessly.
"Nothing."
"Grace is in there and she... she chose me!" Damon's eyes lit up with smugness as Klaus growled at him. "I mean, I don't think she'd be very happy if you just let me die."
"This isn't really helping too much." Stefan informed them both as they tried to be the alpha vampire or hybrid staring each other down intently.
Bonnie walked out of the house looking at the three. "I might have an idea. My mom used a desiccation spell on Mikael that immobilized him for over 15 years. If I can get it, I might be able to use it on Alaric." She informed them all, but Klaus just smirked.
"If and might?" He quoted her with a questionable look. "Your words inspire such confidence."
"I'll get it." Bonnie's voice was filled with confidence as she looked at the three older gentlemen. "But even with the spell, we'll need a lot of vampire muscle to take him down. Including yours."
"Just so we're clear, the sun sets in about eight hours." Klaus looked at the position of the sun in the sky taking note. "If we don't succeed before then, Elena will be dead, I'll be gone, and the rest of you will be left to fend for yourself."
The ex-history teacher dipped the cloth into a beaker full of watered down vervain looking over his shoulder at a pain stricken Grace who was sobbing, he pulled the cloth back out and walked over to her.
"No, no more, please, no more!" Grace begged in a raspy voice looking up at him pleading, he ran his ran over her cheek to see some of the skin was sore and had peeled away due to the vervain. Elena got up from her seat telling him to stop but Alaric pushed her back down.
"Sit down!" He ordered in a low growl making her tremble with fear. "This keeps the vervain in her system. It's like inhaling razor blades with every breath." He informed Elena as he tied the cloth around her mouth knotting it at the back of her head.
Grace whimpered and cried as the vervain met with her skin, making it sizzle and smoke under the cloth, she tried to her out of her ties but she couldn't without seriously hurting herself.
"Why are you doing this?" Elena questioned as tears lined her eyes, she hated seeing Grace in this much pain.
"To make it easier on you when you put her out of her misery." Alaric answered as he picked up the indestructible white oak stake, Grace looked up her chocolate-brown eyes wide with fear.
"What!?" Elena screeched, there was no way in hell that she was going to kill her own twin sister. "No!"
"Isn't this what you wanted, Elena? For me to teach you how to kill a vampire?" He held the stake out for her to take, Grace shook her head looking at Elena pleading her with her eyes. "Well, here's a vampire, Elena. Kill her."
"This isn't what I wanted." Elena rasped as she looked over to her twin biting her bottom lip.
"Of course it is." Alaric answered rolling his eyes. "All those hours you spent training, getting stronger, you could be a hunter, Elena. But you never actually staked a vampire through the heart." He held it out for her to take and she just stared at it.
Damon and Bonnie were waiting at the Boarding House for Abby to arrive to tell Bonnie had to had to do in order to desiccate Alaric so that he would be no more trouble to them all. She was sat on a couch looking through her grimoire and Damon was pacing the room worried out of his mind for Grace.
"What's taking her so long?" Damon growled as he looked over at the young witch who just shrugged in response. "I mean, Grace is in danger, Alaric could kill her like that."
"Grace will be fine. Just, relax, Damon." Bonnie told him in a calming voice. "Abby will be here."
"I'm sorry, I forgot about her stellar track record in the dependability department." There was a deep sarcasm to Damon's voice which actually hurt Bonnie, she nodded a bit understanding that he was taking it out on her because he was worried about Grace.
"Jamie said she was coming, ok. Just give her time-"
"We don't have time!" Damon roared as her and she flinched away at his words, the door bell rang and he stalked towards it with the witch by his side. "Don't get your hopes up. Might be a Girl Scout." He informed her even more sarcasm.
Bonnie reached out and opened the door pleading to God that it was her mother here to help, she had skipped out on her twice now and honestly wasn't even sure if she wanted to see her again after everything, but Elena and Grace's life depended on it.
"Hello, Bonnie." Abby smiled at her young daughter but she didn't return the favour just moved out of the way so that she could step into the Salvatore Boarding House.
"Thanks for coming." Bonnie answered looking at the ground, she couldn't bring herself to look into the eyes of a woman who had abandoned her twice.
"Jamie's worried about you." Abby informed her and the witch couldn't help that her heart fluttering in her chest at the mention of Jamie actually being worried about her. "He said it was urgent. I just didn't think you'd ever want to see me again."
"Like Jamie said, it's urgent." Bonnie answered in a low voice as she walked away from the woman, she probably didn't want to see her again, she had hurt her so much in such a short amount of time.
Stefan and Klaus pull up outside of Mystic Falls High climbing out of the hybrids car when Stefan's phone vibrated in his pocket, reaching in for it he sat a text from Damon informing him that Abby had arrived.
"Abby just showed up." Stefan told Klaus as he slid his phone back into his dark wash jean pocket.
"Good. Perhaps this plan won't be an epic failure after all." Klaus answered with a smirk as he looked over at his ex-friend. "You know, if this does go off and we drop the history teacher in the Atlantic, I'm still leaving with Elena."
"I'll go with you." Stefan promised, he was more than ready to leave everything in Mystic Falls behind to make sure that Elena was safe for the rest of her human life.
"Really? What's the catch?" Klaus questioned trying to see if the younger vampire had an ulterior motive to coming across the world with him and his doppelgänger, in truth it was just so that he could be with her. Forever.
"There's no catch." Stefan admitted looking up into Klaus' skeptical mixed coloured orbs, he had so much to live for in his town, family, friends. "I'd turn my back on everything here to make sure Elena's safe."
"And that is what makes you the better brother." Klaus smiled at him patting him on the shoulder once. "That is what makes your love for Elena so pure, that you'd be willing to drop everything to make sure she is safe. Damon doesn't understand that, shame that Grace doesn't realise it."
"Damon would do anything for Grace. That's why he spent months searching for her. That's why he wasn't angry when you and her... got together. He is willing to see past the anger and see the true her. He'd do anything to see her smile and see her be happy." Stefan countered and Klaus gritted his teeth his mouth a firm line.
"Well, there are always going to be things that we disagree on Stefan, I suppose the relationship of Damon and Grace is one of them." The hybrid answered his eyes flicking over to the school watching it carefully.
"Why didn't I have to be invited in?" Abby questioned as she looked around the exquisite parlour room that her and her daughter were sat in.
"Only vampires live here." Bonnie answered casually as Damon walked into the room with a glass of blood in his hands.
"We had signed the deed over to Elena, but she died." Damon informed the older witch who was now a vampire. "The seal broke, very long story." He rolled his icy blue orbs holding out the blood for her to take. "Blood?" She just stared at the glass. "Ah, come on. I think of it as a peace-offering." He smirked but the ex-witch continued to say nothing. "Fine. More for me." He took a seat next to the young witch.
"We called you here because we need your help with a spell." Bonnie stood up and walked towards her estranged mother. "Esther created a vampire that can't be killed. I want to desiccate him like you did to Mikael."
"Bonnie, it's too dangerous." She looked over at her daughter with fear in her eyes, when she had to desiccated Mikael it was the work of dark magic, stuff that Bonnie shoulder be tampering with at such a young age. "Your magic comes from the Earth. It's pure. This spell asks you to tap into dark places. Places of temptation, places you can't handle."
"You turned your back on me for sixteen years, you have no idea what I can handle." Bonnie countered narrowing her bright brown eyes.
"Gotta say I'm Team Bonnie on this one." Damon held up his hand putting in his two cents. "How hard can it be to parch a vampire?"
"The spell allows you to stop a vampire's heart." Abby looked over at the older vampire with a cautious look in her eyes. "The blood will stop flowing and the body will desiccated."
"That's exactly what we want to do."
"To stop a vampire's heart, you need to find a balance among the living. Can you handle that?" Abby hissed at her daughter, Bonnie was strong, but was she willing to end a human life in order to save vampires.
"What?" Damon looked between them, the young witch had caught her drift, but Damon was completely lost. "What does that mean? Bonnie, I don't speak witch." He reminded her.
"I have to stop a human heart." Bonnie muttered her eyes wide on her mother.
Jeremy was sitting on a bench outside of the school whilst he was sat with Klaus and Stefan who were waiting for Damon and Bonnie who were approaching them looking down at Bonnie's phone.
"I just got this." Bonnie informed him tapping on an app which showed a man of the school with two red dots in Alaric's classroom. "It connects me to Caroline, Grace and Elena through our phones. They're in Alaric's classroom. You should go in from the south entrance." She informed him and he nodded.
"Digital locator spell. Why the hell do we need you then?" He teased as he took the phone from her hands getting a good look before handing it back to her. They both approach the young human who was sitting there casually trying not to think about Elena and Grace. "Hand it over." Damon ordered holding his hand out.
"I'm not giving you my ring." Jeremy hissed at the older vampire narrowing his eyes at him. "Let me do this."
"By my math, you've already bit it once, possibly twice, wearing that thing and if for some reason Bonnie can't restart you heart and you do indeed die, then before you know it, we have another psycho alter ego case on our hands, which is bad so give me the ring." He ordered in a firm voice, he wasn't in the mood for playing games, Grace was in danger and he needed to get to her.
"This is my ring, Elena and Grace are my sisters. No one's going to fight harder for them than me." Jeremy countered giving him a look.
"Fine. Be stubborn." Damon growled as he looked down at the young witch who was looking at Jeremy timidly. "Try not to kill him, will you?"
Klaus, Damon, Stefan, Bonnie and Jeremy gathered in a circle outside of the school and the witch pulled a vial of blood out of her pocket.
"Drink this." Bonnie ordered and they all gave her a skeptical look. "It's my blood. It bridges us all together so that when I stop Jeremy's heart, you'll have the power to stop Alaric's. You need to make a physical connection to his bloodstream; a vein, artery, something connected to his heart." She handed the blood to Damon who drank a bit passing it along to Stefan.
"If one of us gets a clean shot, take it, the other two: hold him down." Stefan told the other two vampires as he took a swig of the witch blood handing it over to Klaus.
"Before we all walk though these doors, let's get on the same page, shall we?" Klaus looked over at them all. "I was the one who created your vampire bloodline, therefore I am responsible for your lives and Grace's life, Caroline's life, Tyler's life and of course, Abby's life, should anything go wrong." He was more of a threat so that they wouldn't turn on him after killing Alaric.
"Or you're just lying to save your ass." Damon countered giving him a deadly look.
"I'm not lying." Klaus told him in a firm voice. "But go ahead, call my bluff, let the teacher kill me. You'll all be dead soon thereafter." He drank the rest of the blood handing Bonnie the empty vial back.
"Let's just get this over with, shall we?" Stefan suggested as himself, his brother and the hybrid all walked into the school leaving Bonnie and Jeremy behind.
In Alaric's classroom Grace was still staked to the desk and Elena was sat next to her watching the pain flash over Grace's features when she moved in the slightest way.
"Why are you doing this?" The doppelgänger's voice weak as she looked over at the Original.
"Because you need me." Alaric answered with a smirk pulling over his lips as he paced in front of Elena and Grace. "Because you're an 18 year old girl without parents or guidance or any sense of right and wrong anymore."
"Look at you. How is this right!?" Elena roared looking over at poor Grace who was in so much pain every time she moved, breathed or even blinked, everything hurt.
"She's a murderer." Alaric pointed the stake, scraping it against the skin over where Grace's heart was, she shuddered away from him tears falling down her cheeks. "Damon told me that once they both almost drained a girl dry, and she enjoyed it. Now how is that right? Listen, Elena, you parents led the council. It was their life's mission to keep this town safe. They weren't dead six months before you undid it all."
"You don't know anything about them!"
"Why, am I wrong?" Alaric taunted as he looked down at her. "Do you actually think that they'd be proud of you. That Grace's parents would be proud of her for what she had become!" He knelt in front of Elena's desk. "If you don't side with the humans, you're just as bad as them. Now kill her." Alaric ordered as he handed her the stake. "Or I'll do it for you and I'll make it hurt." Elena didn't move, she couldn't, she was frozen with fear. "Get up!" He roared grabbing her wrist making her standing in front of a whimpering sobbing Grace.
Elena stood there for a moment looking into Grace's leaking chocolate-brown orbs, she quickly turned around and was about to force the stake into Alaric, but he grabbed her hand before she could even try to stake him.
"I thought I taught you better than that." Alaric taunted with a smirk pulling over his lips.
"You did." Elena answered as she used her other hand to grab the beaker of vervain and smash it over Alaric's head, he screamed and let her go, his flesh burning from the herb that was biting into his skin. She pulled the pencils from Grace's hand and urged her to leave. "Get help!" Elena ordered and Grace zipped from the room, when Elena tried to leave Alaric moved in front of her blocking her exit.
Grace was in the hallway thinking that Elena was right behind her, turning to look she realised her twin wasn't with her anymore, she walked backwards for a moment when suddenly she was caught in a strong pair of arms, a hand covering her mouth.
"Shh." A British voice cooed her as he stroked her hand with his free hand. "It's ok. It's ok. It's me." He calmed her and she looked up to see his mixed coloured orbs looking down at her. "It's ok. You're safe. We'll save Elena. You go straight to Elena's house, Caroline is waiting for you ok? You stay inside and do not come out, do you understand?" He turned Grace around so that she was facing him.
She nodded weakly giving him a thankful look, he stroked her cheek softly being careful of her sore burnt skin. "Thank you." She mumbled not looking at him anymore and with that Klaus zipped down the hallways and she didn't waste anytime in leaving the school.
Alaric launched Elena against a set of lockers in the hallway, he grabbed her by her throat holding her off the ground. "I should kill you." The ex-history teacher growled at her. "I should gut you like Brian Walters, Bill Forbes, and all the other cowards I plan on ripping apart. You're the worst offender of them all, Elena. You don't deserve to live." He growled at her narrowing his eyes.
"So then, why am I still alive?" She rasped clawing against his hand. "There's obviously no humanity left in you, so what's stopping you, Alaric? If you want me dead then kill me!" She saw his vampire side coming out. "Do it! Kill me!" The blood in his eyes faded away and he released her from his grip and didn't expect to be grabbed from either side by Damon and Stefan.
"Do it now!" The raven haired vampire called but Alaric was too strong, he pushed them both kneeing Stefan in the back successfully breaking Stefan's back knocking him out. Damon went for him, but Alaric flicked his wrist and broke his neck leaving both the Salvatore brothers temporarily dead on the floor.
Klaus growled as he watched from the sidelines rushing over to Alaric forcing him against the lockers shoving his hand into his chest clutching his fist around is heart making the connection that Bonnie needed.
Bonnie and Jeremy were in the wood by the school alone, the young boy was laying on the floor looking up at the clear blue sky whilst the witch knelt next to him. She felt something within her that told her they had made a connection with Alaric's heart.
"They made contact." Bonnie informed Jeremy looked down at him so he could prepare himself for what was going to happen. "It happening." She placed her hands just above Jeremy's chest beginning to chant the spell quietly.
Alaric managed to pull Klaus' hand from his chest and launched him to the ground giving him a deathly look as he searched around for his white oak stake.
Bonnie had to stop the spell when she felt the connection to Alaric being broken, she opened her eyes and Jeremy looked at her worried.
"What's wrong?" The human boy questioned looking over at her.
"Something happened, the connection broke."
Alaric grabbed Klaus and launched him against the lockers, flipping him over so that he was facing him about to stake him, but the hybrid used his strength and fought back. They continued to fight against each other when they were forced to stop.
"Stop!" Elena screamed and the history looked over at her to see she was standing there with a knife pressed to her throat. "Let him go or I'll kill myself." She threatened, she wasn't saving Klaus she was saving all the people who would die with Klaus is he died.
"Put it down, Elena." Alaric ordered but she shook her head.
"Why?" She hissed at him narrowing her chocolate-brown eyes. "Because you still need me alive? There's a reason why Esther used me to make you, isn't here?" She asked and he looked away for a moment. "She didn't want you to be immortal, so she tied your life to a human one. Mine. That way you have only one life span to kill all vampires and then you'll be gone. So, when I die, you die, too. That's it, it has to be!"
"You're wrong."
"Am I?" She questioned a challenging look filling her dark orbs as she sliced her throat a bit, not enough to kill her but enough to get a reaction from Alaric.
"Stop! STOP! STOP! STOP!" The ex-history teacher ordered as he stepped away from Klaus, in his moment of panic Klaus launched him across the room, grabbing Elena and zipping them from the school without a second thought.
A little while later Elena groaned as she woke up, looking around the room she saw a nurse standing next to her fixing a blood bag to the chair that was feeling up with the doppelgänger's blood. She winced in pain as she pushed the needle into her skin.
"Be careful." The obviously compelled nurse cooed. "Moving only makes it hurt more." Her blood began to run through a tube and she watched it turning pale at the sight.
"What are you doing?" Elena asked weakly as the nurse walked away, she followed her with her eyes to see that Klaus was sitting on a chair in front of her.
"Draining you of all your blood." Klaus answered as if he was talking about something as casual as the weather, she tried to move but realised that she had been tied down to the chair. Tyler walked into the room carrying a moving box completely surprised to see Elena.
"Elena?" The younger hybrid questioned as he dropped the box to the floor and swiftly walked over to her concerned.
"Tyler, help me." Elena pleaded in a raspy tone looking over at the hybrid who stopped dead when he saw his 'sire' in there with her.
"He can't." Klaus answered with a sick smile pulling across his lips knowing that Elena's last hope was going down the drain. "He needs to go fetch me more empty blood bags. About three litres worth, please Tyler."
"Tyler, please. Get Stefan, please." Elena rasped as she looked over at Tyler who gave her a helpless look, Klaus couldn't know the sire bond didn't work anymore, not yet.
"No, Tyler, get the bags." Klaus growled at him, he stood there for moment before zipping over to Elena but his master intercepted him. "Forget the girl and get the bags. Now." Tyler gave Elena an apologetic look as he walked from the room.
"So, that's it? You're just gonna bleed me dry?" Elena questioned looking as Klaus paced her like she was his prey.
"Yes, but don't worry, it'll be completely painless. As the last drop is drawn, you'll simply fall asleep." Klaus informed her with a kind smile, like he was doing her a favour by draining her of ever ounce of blood in her body.
Back in Mystic Falls High Damon was just waking up from his attack by Alaric, he could hear Stefan's phone buzzing in his younger brother pocket next to him, groaning he sat up. "Why am I still alive?" He growled as he looking around to see Alaric approaching them.
"Get up." He ordered in a low tone and the raven haired vampire shook Stefan he groaned as he woke back up too. "I said, get up. Klaus is going to kill Elena."
"What are you talking about?" Stefan growled as he stood up, he always figured would be safe when it came to Klaus, he need her, she was of use to him. "Klaus needs Elena's blood to make hybrids. She's the last person that he'd kill."
"The witch bounded my life to Elena's. If she dies, I die." Alaric informed them both and Damon looked over Stefan who had a concerned look on his face. "Klaus figured that out and now he's taken her. Now, I'm trapped here until the sun does down, so you two better get going." He walked between them shouldering barging them in the process.
A nurse switched another filled up blood bag with a fresh one, Elena watched it, she was physically weaker now looking around the room for a way to escape but she could feel herself fading fast, she began to think what it would be like if she wasn't in the world. At least her family would be safe, Alaric would be gone too...
"What about your hybrids?" Elena rasped looking over at the Original. "You'll need more than this to create your army." She noticed that Klaus picked up one of her blood bags from the compelled nurse.
"These last few litres will have to suffice." Klaus answered looking down at the crimson blood, it was still warm, he could feel the life beaming from it. A new family. "You see, by attempting to kill us, my mother strengthened the bond between my siblings and I." He lied to her, Rebekah had left him, Elijah and Kol were nowhere to be found and Finn was dead. "I don't need hybrids. I have my family."
"If you believe that, then why take my blood at all?" She looked over at him narrowing her chocolate-brown orbs. "You want a backup family. You know that your siblings will never trust you again."
"You know Grace blames me for every bump in the road between her and Damon, she can't see that they are not compatible, not a lot of people can actually-"
"They are what is best for each other, you are no good for her. You. Are. Poison." She growled at him narrowing her eyes, he flinched back hurt by her words.
"Hmm, it seems you are blinded too." Klaus muttered as he looked at her "Look, you're Grace's sister if she'll admit the truth to anyone, it would have been you. What did she feel for me."
"I'm pretty sure as this moment in time she wants you to rot in hell." Elena growled at him and he moved away from her stalking across the room.
"Very well. Sweet dreams, Elena. It's been fun." He walked from the room leaving her all alone and she began to struggle against the chair, but she was so weak she could barely fight to keep her eyes open.
Tyler walked back into the room as quiet as he could, creeping over to Elena making sure his 'master' wasn't in the room as he began to undo the ropes that tied here to the wood chair.
"What are you doing?" Elena rasped as she looked at him.
"Shh." He stopped her from alerting Klaus as he complete untied her from the chair but Elena looked over his shoulder to see Klaus standing in the hallway with a deathly look in his mixed coloured orbs, Tyler looked over his shoulder at him but he wasn't scared anymore.
"So much for that sire bond." Klaus muttered as he stalked across the room to be standing in the middle.
"I'm not your little bitch anymore." Tyler spat as the Original walked towards him with a smirk playing on his lips.
"How did you break the sire bond?" Klaus questioned curiously, if anyone had helped the boy to be released from the bond he would kill them so that they wouldn't help the rest of his hybrids.
"By breaking ever bon in my body a hundred times for the girl I love." Tyler answered.
"That's impossible."
"Is it?" Tyler questioned as he stepped towards his ex-master narrowing his dark brown orbs at him. "Or maybe my love is stronger than fake loyalty. But what would you know about that?"
"You know, you should be thanking me. I gave you a gift. I took away your misery." Klaus countered, he was right in some respects, now he could be with Caroline for eternity and he didn't have to go through the agony of changing into wolf form at every full moon.
"You didn't give a crap about me!" Tyler spat as he square up tot he man who had tormented him for so long, almost made him kill his own girlfriend, turn against his friends all because of one sire bond. "You just didn't want to be alone!" He turned and held Elena stand up. "Come on."
Klaus zipped over and shoved Elena back into her seat and holding Tyler against the wall shoving his hand into his chest about to finish him off. "Goodbye, Tyler." He was about to pull the organ out, but Tyler turned the tables and twisted his arm around and Stefan and Damon bolted into the room, Stefan grabbing his other arm and Damon shoving his hand into his chest making the connection that Bonnie needed, it was meant for Alaric, but using it on Klaus was good enough.
Bonnie began to chant her spell, she felt stronger this time and she wasn't sure why, but as she Jeremy died in front of her she could feel something on her face. Black veins crept up her arms moving towards her face.
Klaus began to desiccate looking into the mans eyes who had ruined his relationship with the only woman he ever truly loved. Grace. Damon was the one 'ending' his life, first she had chosen him and now he was ending him. Stefan moved away from the scene down to help Elena stand up.
"Are you ok?" Stefan questioned carefully as he wrapped his arm around her waist helping her to stand up and she just nodded in response unable to actually speak from weakness. "Come on."
"She will never love you." Damon growled protectively over Grace into Klaus' ear making sure that he actually heard what he said as Tyler held his arms behind his back.
The veins covering Bonnie's body faded away and she let out a breath as she stopped the chant, it was done and whatever had contact with one of the vampires was now successfully desiccated. She placed her hands above Jeremy once again chanting the spell to revive him, but when he didn't awaken she began to panic and start to shake him.
"Oh my God! Jeremy!" She pounded his chest with her fists trying to get him to start breathing but nothing was working. "Jeremy! Jeremy!" She heard a gasp escape his lips as he sat upright, she was so relieved that he was ok, skimming her lips over his pressing her forehead to his.
Damon removed his hands from a fully desiccated Klaus as Tyler lay him on the ground carefully, the raven haired vampire looked over his shoulder at his younger brother.
"We should get her home before the sun sets." Stefan informed them from where he was holding Elena upright, Tyler nodded as he followed the couple out. Damon glanced down at Klaus' body one more time before leaving too.
As Elena, Damon and Stefan get to the Gilbert house the raven haired vampire made his way immediately into the house to see his girlfriend, but Stefan and Elena stayed outside for a moment getting some air.
"You lost a lot of blood today." Stefan informed her in a solemn tone. "I'm going to stay here in Mystic Falls tonight and Damon is going to go get rid of Klaus' body."
"You can go with Damon if you want-"
"Elena, I'd feel safer knowing that you're ok." Stefan answered skimming his hand over her cheek lovingly before leaning his head down pressing his lips to hers. "Listen, I'm sorry I wasn't there sooner today, when I saw that you were in a really bad way I thought I was going to lose you forever."
"Don't say that." Elena whispered as she locked her hands into his bright brown hair.
When the door opened Grace jumped down from where she was sat on the side and ran over to Damon he caught her in his arms pulling her into a tight hug, lifting her and she wrapped her legs around his waist holding him as close as she could.
"You scared me, Gilbert." Damon whispered as he knotted his fingers in the ends on Grace's chocolate-brown locks, she sobbed into his neck so happy knowing he was ok. "No tears." He ordered and she giggled pulling back.
"I don't think I've ever seen anything more adorable!" Caroline cooed as she shot a picture on her phone giving Grace a teasing look as she climbed down from Damon's body, taking his hand intertwining their fingers and walking into the kitchen to see a line of shots waiting.
When the door opened again Stefan and Elena walked into the house hand in hand smiling at the crowd waiting for them. "Welcome to out victory party!" Caroline announced.
"What victory?" Elena walked into the room with Stefan by her side. "We failed. Alaric's still out there." She informed then.
"We know, but we've been trying to get rid of Klaus forever and Caroline convinced us to enjoy it for a night." Bonnie smiled over at them.
"You know, to be honest, I'm a little pissed none of you let me help you take down Original brother number two." Matt looked at the supernaturals that surrounded him, Tyler put his arm around his best friends neck.
"Yeah, he would have taken you right down to the hospital, bro." Tyler countered.
"Please, I'm more stealth than that. I'm like a ninja." He joked and everyone laughed along with him.
"Yeah, you wish." Jeremy smirked.
Caroline handed Elena, Stefan, Grace and Damon a shot of tequila. "Here. You're all going to need this."
"Hand." Tyler ordered the girls and both Grace and Elena put they hand out so that Tyler could pour salt on.
"Thank you for standing up to Klaus like that." Elena smiled at the hybrid who was no longer sired to anyone, he was a free man and he could be with the woman he loved for eternity, in peace.
"Let's drink." Matt ordered from the sidelines and everyone clinked their glasses together smiling at each other, their little family was whole again, minus a couple of members.
"Hold on." Tyler stopped them all from drinking making them all listen for a moment. "Do you guys hear that?" No one answered, it was completely peaceful silence. "That is the sound of a Klaus free world." They all laugh.
Damon grabbed Grace's hand, licking the salt off sensually before doing his shot of tequila watching her pour her drink back without even wincing.
"To family." Elena smiled looking around the room at all the difference bonds and relationships, she was so happy that she was in a family as great as this one. They could pull together through anything. Get over any hurdle. Live and love.
Over at the Lockwood Mansion Sheriff Forbes bolts up the stairs to the front door and knocked it waiting for Carol to open the door and when she did she saw the solemn look on her face.
"Carol, what is so urgent that you called an emergency council meeting at this house?" Liz questioned as the mayor let her into the house.
"I didn't call the meeting, Liz." Carol answered as they walked into the living room to see Alaric standing in front of the council. "He did."
"Join us, Sheriff." Alaric smiled over at the Sheriff who timidly walked into the room joined by Carol. "I was just telling the council about our vampire problem. Or should I say your problem."
"What do you think you're doing?" Liz growled at him.
"Well, perhaps you and the Mayor can enlighten the group on the strides you've taken to eliminate the issue. Oh, that's right, you haven't." There was deep sarcasm in his voice. "You see the Sheriff, a woman we elected to keep our families safe and town secure, has a vampire for a daughter." The news of this made the council member gasp. "And our lovely Mayor, a son who is half vampire, half werewolf."
"Why are you doing this?" Caroline hissed at him, she had always thought Alaric had understood with Elena loving Stefan a vampire and her sister was a vampire too.
"These woman are hypocrites. They claim to spearhead our defence against the supernatural presence, then cover up the violent attacks committed by their children." Alaric added and the group of founders glared at them.
"That's enough!" Liz exploded glaring right back at them. "We're done here, It's time to go." She turned about to leave two but Alaric zipped to be standing blocking the exit from her.
"Sit down, Liz. We're just getting started." Alaric taunted.
Grace was driving Elena's car with Klaus' body in the coffin in the back whilst Damon sat next to her smiling to himself. She glanced over at him smiling before putting her eyes back on the road. "What?" She questioned.
"How many desiccated hybrids does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Damon questioned in a joking tone and she laughed a little patting his knee.
"Someone's in a good mood." She noted grinning as she looked onto the road, it was dark now so she was worried for everyone back home, but felt safe in Damon's presence.
"Yeah I'm in a good mood." Damon sat up in his seat. "Klaus is dead, my brother is half way sane, again. I have a gorgeous girlfriend. Give or take an immortal hunter who wants to kill us, we won, Grace. Come on say it. Say it." He reached over and tickled her sides, she swerved the car as she giggled, he tripped the wheel getting the car back on the road laughing.
"We won." She laughed as she looked over at him for a second trying to keep her eyes on the road, but with the amazingly handsome man sitting next to her she struggled.
"Once more with feeling." He gripped her thigh and she screamed laughing rolling her chocolate-brown orbs.
"We won!" She screamed taking one hand off the wheel to fist pump, he gripped the wheel with one hand leaning over to crush his lips against her, she pushed him away trying to keep her attention on the road.
"I got you something." Damon informed her as he leaned forward and reached into his jacket pocket pulling out a thinly wrapped item, she laughed a little seeing him pull out the present for her.
"No, Damon, you didn't have to get me anything-"
"Just open it." He ordered handing it over to her, she used her knees to steer badly whilst she ripped the present open to see two plan tickets to Barcelona, she gasped a bit surprised to see them.
"Oh my God." She muttered looking down at them "W-When did you get these?" She questioned, he must have had them a while.
"A while a go, I got them for when everything had calmed, but I'm giving them to you now so you can have something to look forward to after everything is over." He smirked skimming his hand over her thigh seductively as she gripped the wheel once again. "I'm going to show you the world, Grace Gilbert."
"I love you, Damon Salvatore." Grace whimpered as she leaned over and kissed him with all the passion she could muster, he tried to deepen it but she pulled away once again getting back to the road.
"I love you too." He smirked over at her taking her hand carefully. "You know you're a pretty special girl."
"And you're a pretty amazing guy. I guess we make a great couple." She giggled.
Jeremy was painting Alaric's room once again when Elena walked into the room smiling at him, she was fairly drunk from their small gathering earlier. "Hey. Everyone gone?"
"It's just us." Elena confirmed with a nod.
"I hate this room." Jeremy informed her, he had every right to, a lot of people he had loved who were now dead had died in this room. Like his parent, his aunt Jenna, Alaric.
"Me too." Elena muttered looking around at the nearly finished decorating. "Mom and Dad were right. Alaric should have just killed all the vampires and put an end to all of this. But then that means we would have lost a sister, Caroline dies and Bonnie loses her mom, the mayor loses her son, and I lose Stefan and Grace and Damon lose each other." Elena put her head down upset thinking of losing all of those people in own fell swoop. "So, if it makes me the bad guy for wanting to keep those people alive, then fine, I'll be the bad guy."
"You forget that Alaric never wanted any of this. Once he carries out his plans, what if he decides he doesn't want to live anymore and he kills his human connection to end his life? That would mean I would lose you. I'm not going to let that happen." Jeremy told her in a sure voice and she smiled at him. "I'm going to go shower and get some sleep. Goodnight, Elena." He touched her face carefully as he walked from the room.
Elena walked around the room once before grabbing a paint brush painting the window frame when suddenly she felt a large pain in her head, she fell to the floor unconscious as blood dripped from her nose.
A/N
Only one more chapter to go and then this story is over until October, if you haven't voted on my poll yet please do, it will be up until I 'finish' this story. I'm actually really upset to be leaving Drace for that long :( I'm going to miss them so much :"(
So tell me, why do you think Grace really chose Damon over Klaus? Was it something deeper than motel room sex, or what? Tell me, I really appreciate hearing what you think :D
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KimmyWSmith – I'm really glad Damon and Grace are back together, I missed writing their scenes so much, but yeah, poor Alaric :(
storylover3 – When I watched the scene for the first time I was sobbing so much, I had mascara running down my cheeks, I was a mess, so writing it was really hard for me to do. But Alaric is asking a lot of Grace, but I think she can handle, she's strong.
xxxRena – Thank you so much :) I'm really going to miss Alaric, I wish he didn't have to leave :'(
TheElegantFaerie – I think being away from someone can make you feel more when you see them again. I just love writing Damon and Grace scenes, so cute :)
Destined2RunWithTheWolves – I hope this was soon enough x
Chloe – Yep. Stelena and Drace are hopefully together for good, but who knows what the future holds.
Mia Salvatore – Klaus is one of those people who just does not give up no matter how many times you say 'no' but hopefully he can find it in him to just let Grace be happy.
David Fishwick – I'm glad they are, too. I hope you enjoy this chapter :)
SharkGurl – I love Drace moments, too. I could write about them forever and never get bored :D
ADORATIO – No problem ;)
SomebodyWhoCares – Yeah, I just had to add it :D Kitchen counter was kind of the dream state when Grace was on her way to Chicago with Klaus, but she was in a dream with Damon, it was a little way back now haha :)
susl – I know, I'm really sorry about Klace, but I might be doing a Klaus/OC story that may interest you :) That's if it gets enough votes or I chose to put up two new stories. Thank you :)
graphjuice101 – I know! The Alaric scene made me sob my little heart out, every time! I hope this was a quick enough update :D