Twisted Love
Season Three
The Departed
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace and Fayth :)
Gilbert House – Two Years Ago
Elena's alarm began to buzz as she opened her eyes, So What by P!nk was playing loud and she couldn't help by smile to herself. She had a good life, parents and family that loved her, great friends,amazing boyfriend. But somehow something was missing, she felt it, unsure of what. When she changed into her cheerleading uniform she took off down the stairs to see her Aunt Jenna in the kitchen. "Hey." Jenna greeted with a happy smile.
"Jeremy locked himself in the bathroom again." Elena's voice was small thinking that her parents were around. "Does he think we don't know what he's doing in there?"
"He's 14." Jenna laughed a bit rolling her eyes. "They don't think." The girl grabbed the coffee cup from in front of her, but Jenna took it back shaking her head. "Hey, you'll get me in trouble." She muttered as Miranda walked into the room.
"Good morning." She greeted as Elena turned to her giving her mom a big smile.
"Morning, mom." Elena answered as he mother leaned in a placed a kiss on her cheek before walking around to greet Jenna.
Hospital Present Day
Elena let out a small sigh as her eyes fluttered open to see the white hospital room surrounding her, she began to wonder how she got here, but she couldn't get past the aching pain in her head.
Just outside of Elena's hospital room Stefan, Meredith and Jeremy all stood there observing the hurt girl concerned for her health.
"She's going to be fine." Meredith assured them both with a kind smile. "She got a little banged up today, hit her head, but it was just a slight concussion, nothing to worry about." She informed them.
"But she collapsed, there was blood." Jeremy's voice was almost hysterical as the younger Salvatore brother thought back to what Elena's blood smelt like back when she used to feed him a bit once again. He used to fight the urge to drain her dry.
"Honestly, Jeremy, she's ok. She's just... she's been through a lot." Meredith answered but Stefan could see something off with her words. "Is there anyone you want to call." Both the boys glanced at each other.
Grace had her phone of loud-speaker so that Damon could hear the conversation between herself, Stefan and Jeremy about Elena having to go into hospital in the middle of the night.
"You did what?!" Grace shrieked, if Elena was that bad surely Stefan could have just healed her at home but no, she had to go to a hospital.
"I took her to the hospital." Jeremy answered innocently, but still he defended his choice, he did what he thought was right when Elena collapsed, that was what he would do if vampires weren't here, so why change it now. "When you find your sister unconscious, you call 911."
"Not when you have a vampire in town that can heal her, Jer!" Grace countered her eyes wide staring down at the phone, Damon reached over and stroked her thigh soothingly, but she was so scared and shocked to hear about her sister being in such a bad way.
"Every remaining Original is going to want Elena dead to stop Alaric. She's a sitting duck in there." Damon added from where he was now driving, they had changed to give Grace a break.
"Well, Meredith wants to keep her here for observation." Jeremy answered and the youngest vampire rolled her chocolate-brown orbs feeling her anger building inside of her.
"Listen, Stefan, get Elena home. We're on our way-"
"No, you two keep going alright. You need to get his body hidden before Alaric finds him and potentially Klaus is the sire of our bloodline then we will all be dead and no use to Elena. Keep going." Stefan added in a firm voice, the young vampire knew he had a good point and muttered that she would before she hit the end button before slamming her hand down on the door looking teary eyed out of the window as Damon continued to rub her knee, she bit on her knuckles attempting to hold back the tears.
"Everything is going to be alright, Gracie-"
"I... I just want to thank you." Grace whispered as she tucked a strand of her chocolate-brown hair behind her ear glancing over to him as he continued to looked back and forth between her and the road. "For... For when I told you about... Klaus and I you didn't freak out." He didn't answer only listened to her. "You could have turned your back and walked away and left me in the dust, or you could have... killed everyone in that bar, but you didn't. You were calm."
"I had no right to be angry. I pushed you towards him-"
"No, no you didn't." Grace whispered as she took a deep breath. "But I know I was such a fool for doing it and taking his blood... Which has worn off by the way, at least I think it has." She muttered looking down at herself, she didn't feel any stronger, or faster, she just felt like herself once again and that felt great.
"I'm glad to hear it."
Meredith walked into her office engrossed in her paperwork when she looked up she saw Alaric sitting casually at her desk. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw him, and not in the romantic, cute way. She knew he was meant to be dead.
"Hello, Meredith." He purred a sly smile pulling over his lips as he tilted his head to one side giving her a psychotic look.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm Elena's guardian." Alaric countered as he sat up in the chair, taking his feet down off the desk to sit upright. "I thought it was strange I didn't get a phone call." He added almost sticking out his bottom lip in a pouting fashion.
"How did you find out?" Meredith growled her voice low as she narrow her eyes at him.
"I have eyes and ears everywhere now. It's funny, the people of this town are actually good at their jobs when you allow them to be." He chuckled darkly his medium brown hair falling over his big, beautiful orbs for a second. "Speaking of, you are a little too good at your job." He pushed himself out of the chair and wandered over to the mini-fridge opening it and pulling out the vials of vampire blood. "But that's because you cheat." He whispered as if it was a secret. "So, I found your stash of vampire blood." He opened the top and poured them out onto the desk rendering them useless.
"No, stop it!" Meredith shrieked, but didn't dare try to stop him, she valued her life over a couple of vials of vampire blood. "No, don't do that, stop it!" He finished pouring every vial onto the desk with a sick smile.
"The council will be in touch with the medical board to have your license suspended. Mayor Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes are being relieved of their duties. I'm getting this town back under control." He slid the medical file out of her hands that were numb from complete shock of her losing her job, it was all she had left, saving people, but now that was gone. "And you will be releasing Elena to my custody."
He placed his signature on the line before handing the file back to a distraught Meredith who just stared blankly at the wall as he walked from the room towards poorly Elena's room, he walked inside to see the bed was empty.
Tyler, Matt, Caroline and Jeremy were watching over Stefan as he looked after poor Elena, she was at on the couch looking weak as the four teens stood behind them.
"Stefan, seriously, I'm fine. I could use something to eat first." Elena shrugged her shoulders a bit as her stomach grumbled once again, she placed her hand on it laughing nervously and her friends laugh.
"We're on it." Tyler assured her with a grin. "Just as soon as we make sure no one is lurking in the closets." He added as Stefan placed a kiss on Elena's forehead and bolted upstairs with the Matt and the hybrid.
"Doctor says you need rest." Caroline informed her as she pulled a blanket over Elena's legs with a kind smile. "Grace would kill me if she knew I wasn't giving you the best care I could, so you have to listen to me, young lady!"
"Oh, God! Has anyone called Grace!?" Elena tried to sit up, but Caroline restricted her with shaking her head.
"Elena, chill. We've already done it. She wants you under the best medical supervision money can by, but she just has to put up with some close family friends." Caroline joked giving her a warm hug. "You need to relax if you're going to get better. Now, what can I get you? Do you want some tea, maybe some vodka? Both will help you sleep..." She saw the look young Elena was pulling. "I know I'm being smothering. It's what I do."
"No, it's – it's nice." Elena answered giving Caroline a thankful smile, she had been taken this good care of since her mother used to take care of her when she got ill with the flu.
"I'm thinking – maybe tea with vodka." They both laughed as Caroline walked from the room leaving Elena alone to think about what life used to be like before all these vampires her life.
Mystic Falls High – Two Years Ago
Elena and Matt were walking outside hand in hand, he was in his football shirt and she was dressed looking smart in her little cheerleader uniform as they approached Grace who was standing in the same cheerleading uniform looking exasperated.
"Caroline seen you too?" Elena questioned in a knowing voice and the girl nodded before they both fell into fits of laughter. "What did she say to you?"
"She told me that I wasn't wearing enough make-up." They both cracked up one again almost falling over with laughter. "What about you?"
"She told me my ponytail lacked 'juzz'." She answered and they began to cry as they hugged each other before cooling down a bit, Matt gave them both a look before shaking his head chuckling.
"What does 'juzz' mean?" The teenage boy question and both the girls shook their heads not bothering to explain.
"So, I hear your going away to New York?" Elena questioned her friend who shrugged her shoulders a bit looking around to see all of her friends.
"Yeah, my... erm... my Gran just announced it, kinda just came out of the blue." Grace answered shrugging her shoulders. "I think it should be nice getting out-of-town for a while." She added glancing over at her friend. "Don't tell Caroline until last-minute, I mean, she's going to freak because I'm not going to be able to learn all the cheers for next year."
"Your secret is safe with me." Elena replied placing her arm around her best friends neck. "And Matt of course."
"Yeah." Grace laughed again as Matt pretended to zip his lips closed. "So, uh, are you two going to that bonfire tonight? I mean, Bonnie keeps telling me she has a bad feeling about it-"
"I actually can't make it." Elena answered shrugging her shoulders a little giving her distraught best friend a sad smile.
"What, c'mon, Elena." Grace told her in a firm voice."I need you there for when I get a bit too drunk and need some help getting home. Please, you can't leave me like this."
"I know, I know." Elena sighed a bit. "But Jenna's in town and my parents want to do family night."
"Well, see you if can sneak out!" Grace suggested with a happy grin and Elena rolled her eyes a little before giving her friend a hug.
"Oh, 'Lena. I have to go see Coach Tanner." Matt leaned down and pressed a romantic kiss to her lips with a goofy smile spreading across his face. "Love you." He purred before turning and walking away.
"You didn't say it back." Grace muttered and Elena glanced over at her as she shrugged.
"What?"
"You know what." The smaller brunette countered as she placed her hands on her narrow hips giving her a look. "You can't string him along, Elena. If you're not into him anymore, just tell him."
Elena bolted awake to see Matt sitting down by her feet, he jolted when she woke up suddenly too glancing over at her as she looked around the empty room to see it was only herself and her ex-boyfriend in there.
"Where is everyone?" Her throat was thick with grog as she sat up in the chair pulling the blanket down herself feeling too hot in it.
"Tyler and Caroline got a call from their moms and Stefan is on the phone to Grace and Damon checking how it's going." He answered her with a skeptical yet concerned look. "What were you dreaming about?"
"Sophomore year." Elena answered in a quiet tone.
"Seems like forever ago." Matt muttered in a happy tone that was one of his best years but equally one of the worst. It was before all the vampires came into town, before witches and Originals and hybrids and back when he had the love of his life all to himself, but it was also the same year Elena lost her parents and he lost Elena.
"It was." Elena agreed with a smile before it fell from her face, she had strung him along for a long time not telling him she loved him. "I'm sorry that I strung you along. I should have figured out what I wanted and just been honest about it... I really am sorry, Matt." She rubbed his hand tenderly giving him a sad smile which he returned.
Stefan walked back into the house smiling over at her, as much as she enjoyed being with Matt it didn't hold a candle to what she felt for Stefan, she truly loved him more than anything. "Stefan." She breathed as she got up and ran over to him wrapping her arms around his neck.
"They're both doing fine." Stefan assured her rubbing her back carefully giving Matt a 'thank you' smile for looking after her.
Jeremy was over at the Grill grabbing some food for his older sister, one of the cooks walked out and handed him a bag over, the teen smiled gratefully.
"Thanks man, tell the kitchen I appreciate them staying open for me." Jeremy nodded as he turned and saw his worst fear, Alaric was sitting at the bar with two bottles of beer and a sinister look on his face.
"We need to talk."
Elena was lying on the couch once again with a blanket thrown over her legs whilst Matt and Stefan got to cooking some lunch in the kitchen.
"I'm being over coddled." Elena announced her mouth in a firm line, she didn't want to be smothered by everyone she just wanted to get better and get over it.
"You're on house arrest." Stefan joked as he cut some peppers in the kitchen looking at her through the arch way that lead into the living room and she threw him a dirty look. "You're supposed to be coddled." He added.
"Wouldn't it be smarter if we just got you the hell out-of-town?" Matt questioned from where he stood in the kitchen next to Stefan with a concerned look on her face.
"And do what?" Elena shrugged her shoulders. "Go on the run for the rest of my life? No thank you." She pushed herself up from the couch, both of the boys wanted to go over and help her, but knew they would get told off if they did. "And I'm not an invalid. I'm done with the couch." She told them firmly as she gathered the blanket up and walked from the room.
"So, you're just gonna let her call the shots?" Matt questioned in disbelief as he looked over his shoulder at the younger Salvatore brother.
"I'm letting her make her own decisions." Stefan answered as he shrugged his shoulders, throughout his whole time with Elena that was all he ever wanted for her, to be able to have choices, to be able to have free will. He knew more than anyone what it was like to lose that privilege.
"Even if they're wrong?"
"Nothing wrong with free will, Matt." Stefan countered giving him a look as he placed the knife down gently on the side. "Trust me, you don't realise that until you lose it."
"Stefan." Elena's wary voice came from the hallway, both boys walked out to see the shock of their lives, Elijah was stood in the doorway, obviously this Original had already been invited in, there was nothing they could do to block him out.
"Elijah." Stefan growled, he had done so many bad things to them, he was just as bad as his brother Klaus, only he wasn't a psychopathic hybrid.
"Hello again."
"I need you to tell me where they're keeping Klaus' body." Alaric pressured the boy, he knew how much he truly hated the vampires, for what they had done for his family, but still this was his family now.
"I don't know and even if I did, why would I tell you?" He narrowed his eyes at the newly turned Original vampires that stared him down intensely.
Elena's association with vampires nearly got her killed again tonight, Jeremy. Does that even register with you?" He growled at him and Jeremy stiffened up a little.
"Of course it does."
"Well, she can't seem to cut them out of her life, but I can." He assured him in a firm tone. "And with your help, I'll get rid of all of them. Find out where Klaus' body is being hidden, I'll kill him, all his siblings, and when I die, vampires will no longer exist."
"But they only way for you to die is if Elena dies." Jeremy's voice wavered thinking about her dying, she wasn't even his real sister, but she had always been there for him.
"Then lock me up." Alaric shrugged his shoulders carelessly. "Have Bonnie put a spell on me like she did Klaus. Let Elena live a long, healthy life and when her life is over, mine will be too." He pulled out the indestructible white oak stake and placed it in front of them. "This stake is the one weapon on Earth that can kill them. I'm gonna get Klaus either way, Jeremy. Be on the right side."
Elijah, Matt, Stefan and Elena were all sat around the dining table whilst Grace and Damon were on the phone that was laid out in the middle for them to hear the conversation with the 'nobel' Original.
"All we need is to take the stake away from him." Elijah informed them as if it would be that easy to make Alaric give them the stake that can kill them all. "Once it's been disarmed, the weapon's in my possession, my family will scatter to the ends of the Earth and Alaric will follow us."
"And you'll just run?" Stefan questioned skeptically as he took a seat next to Elena reaching over and holding her hand lovingly, she gave him a small smile a blush pulling over her cheeks.
"We've done it before." Elijah answered catching the intimate moment between the two. "Klaus and Rebekah spent the better part of a thousand years evading my father. What's another half century while Elena is able to live out the rest of her human life?"
"We've finally stopped him, Elijah." Elena moaned out as she through to finally stopping Klaus, freeing Grace and Stefan from him, letting both Grace and Damon being happy, everything that Klaus had messed up was finally resolving itself again and his brother wanted them to hand him back over. "After everything that he's done to us, I can't just let you bring him back."
"I give you my word, Elena. I will not revive Klaus within yours nor even within your children's lifetimes." He assured her with a nod. "Perhaps that will finally teach him some manners." He muttered as if Klaus was a naughty child that had been sent to the naughty step.
"No offence, Elijah, but I'm not sure if it's Klaus' outliving Elena's lifetime I'm exactly worried about." Damon announced and Grace threw him a look. "I mean, ever since he barged into town he went after Grace, who's to say once you wake him up he won't cause us problems again."
"I cannot make any deals about Klaus not returning for Grace, but my brother he gets... bored easily. If Grace continued to deny him then he shoulder give up."
"Give up. Sure because he did that so easily the first time... oh no, wait... he didn't." Damon muttered and Grace reached over patting his knee before placing a butterfly kiss on his jaw line. "Gracie, I'm trying to be angry over here..." He groaned a little as she nibbled his neck with her blunt teeth.
"Why should she trust you?" Matt questioned from where he sat at the end of the table next to Stefan. "All you've done is screw her over."
"And for that, I am deeply ashamed." The Original hung his head before looking up at the three. "But know this, she could have been dead that instant I walked through that door tonight, so Elena, I leave it to you to make the decision whether to trust me or not."
"Not!" Damon blurted out. "Hello, did that concussion give you brain damage?! His lunatic siblings will kill you the first chance they get!" He added in a firm voice and Grace gave him a look as he continued to drive.
"Rebekah and Kol will honour the terms." Elijah assured him and Elena sighed as she glanced up at Stefan. "If you return Klaus' body to us, Elena will come to no harm." He paused for a moment hearing the silence that was filled with thought. "Do we have a deal?"
"No!" Damon growled on the phone. "No, no, no, no. Did I mention: No!" He hissed and Grace sighed a little. "I don't want that crazy hybrid coming back into Grace's life, I've had enough of him, I want him gone."
"Elena, it's up to you." Stefan patted her knee and she sighed a little looking at the phone. "Do what you think is best."
"Grace? This affects you the most." Elena whispered knowing her sister would still be able to hear her. "What do you think?"
Damon gave her a pleading look begging her to say no, she would listen to her and Grace knew that too, but she just shrugged her shoulders and Damon slammed his hand against the wheel.
"Elena, I really want to say no and tell you to walk away, but I know what you're like... So, it's up to you... I trust whichever decision you make." There was a high level of doubt in her voice as she glanced over her shoulder at the coffin in the back before glancing over at Damon. "I'm sorry."
"Why do you want Klaus' body?" Elena questioned in a deathly low voice she wanted to know the real reason behind Elijah wanting his brother's body back.
"He's my brother." Elijah answered as if it was that simple. "We remain together."
Elena sighed heavily hanging her head once again, she knew the importance of family and she also knew how important family was to the Originals. "We have a deal."
"Mom?" Tyler called as he walked into his house Caroline by his side, both were equally nervous when they got called to see their parents.
"In here!" Carol called as they both sauntered into the dining room to see that they both looked distraught.
"Mom."
"What's going on?" Tyler questioned as he placed his arm around his blonde vampire girlfriends waist carefully.
"Alaric outed us to the council." Carol informed them both and they gasped a little. "He told them everything. The whole council knows what you are."
"He's got them looking for Klaus and then they're gonna come looking for you." Liz added giving her daughter a look filled with sorrow, all she had ever wanted to do was protect her daughter from the council and now they were going to start hunting them. "You can't be here when they do."
"What are you saying?" Caroline asked with tears lining her eyes, she didn't want to leave Mystic Falls, she didn't want leave her family, as much as she loved Tyler and wanted to be with him, she had a life here.
"You both need to get out-of-town." Liz answered and Caroline shook her head, Tyler gripped her waist tighter.
"I pulled together some cash and Liz will get you some new identification and we'll get school records-"
"Whoa, wait a minute, you want us to run?" Tyler exclaimed quietly looking around the house to make sure no one else was there.
"We can't protect you anymore." Liz informed them both shaking her head.
"Well, we can't just pack up and leave!" Caroline countered as she looked at them both desperately but there was no letting up on each of their faces.
"If you stay, you're going to end up dead. You don't have a choice." Carol answered and Tyler hung his head, he knew she was right. Caroline glanced over at her mother with a teary-eyed pleading look, but she just shook her head.
Matt and Jeremy were sat out on the front porch of the Gilbert house discussing getting Elena out of Mystic Falls away from all the vampires and speaking about Alaric paying him a visit and the offer he had put forward for the young teen.
"So, what are you going to do?" Matt questioned glancing over at his young friend who had a thoughtful look on his face, he was torn between helping Alaric out and protecting his sister and helping all his supernatural friends.
"What I what to do is run in that house, grab Elena, and get her out of here and away from all of this." Jeremy answered a heavy sign falling from his lips, but he would have to fight of Stefan and an Original.
"So why don't we?"
"Good luck getting her past all the vampires in there." Jeremy snorted even he knew that was a fight they couldn't win. "Even if I wanted to help Alaric, I have no idea where Klaus' body is."
"I do."
Alaric was still sat up at the bar nursing a shot of whiskey taking it back every so often and then ordering a new one. His phone began to vibrate on the table and he picked it up holding it to his ear.
"Yes?"
"I know where Klaus' body is." Jeremy informed him in a low voice, giving him this secret would save his sister from the monsters that they called vampires.
"Good. Tell me." Alaric ordered, his voice was threatening and low, no the fun-loving Alaric that he remembered, that had taken care of them when their Aunt Jenna had passed, due to vampires.
"Damon and Grace are on their way to bury him in the woods off Route 12. I'll text you with the specifics." Jeremy answered in a sure voice.
"Thank you, Jeremy. You're doing the right thing for your sister." Alaric assured him as Jeremy sighed heavily.
"I know." He answered before hanging up looking across the table at Stefan, Matt, Elena and Elijah who gave him questionable looks. "He brought it." Jeremy confirmed.
Tyler and Caroline were in the study, the blonde was pacing around nervously gnawing on her nails as the hybrids eyes just followed her.
"We can't jut leave town." The blonde announced looking at her boyfriend.
"Yes, we can."
"But our friends need us." Caroline countered shaking her head, she had an obligation to all of her friends, to help them through everything that was thrown at them, giving up and running for the rest of their eternities was not an option for her.
"And our mothers need us to stay alive." Tyler walked over to her capturing her face between his hands making her look at him a loving desperate look in his dark brown orbs. "Look, Stefan is going to do anything to keep Elena alive and Damon will do the same for Grace, whatever it takes to protect themselves, but this is our lives. So let me protect you." He begged.
"I'll go anywhere with you." Caroline promised teary eyed. "I mean, if we have to spend the rest of out lives running, I will run with you. But, first, I have to help our friends." She informed him in a painful voice.
"I'll get our stuff together and meet you at the cellar in two hours." Tyler told her firmly, they couldn't waste anymore time in Mystic Falls after that, whatever happened happened.
"Deal!" She pressed her lips against his firmly.
"We've got to travel light, so what do you need?" He questioned, but she took his hands tilting her head to the side with a giddy smile.
"Just you." She replied before thinking twice, a thoughtful look over her face. "Maybe a curling iron." She laughed and kissed him once more. "Oh, I have to tell Bonnie!"
"I'll call Bonnie, ok?" Tyler informed her pressing his lips to her forehead. "Two hours, don't you dare be late." She nodded and they kissed once more, with even more passion that ever before as the blonde zipped from the room.
Damon and Grace exit the elevator hand in hand as Bonnie followed in from behind, they were walking through a load of storage units whilst the couple continued to argue over Elena's decision to believe Elijah once again.
"You know, we're not half way out of Virginia and Elena sells our souls to the Originals." Damon growled and Grace looked up at him rolling her chocolate-brown orbs fed up with his complaining.
"It was her call, Damon, I trust her and you should trust me." She hissed in a low tone, he glanced down at her once.
"I do trust you, but I don't trust her, I mean, everything bad that has ever happened has been because of her, Grace." He added and her eyes filled with scorn. "I mean, not everything bad, but just the worst things..." He tried to recover, but she slipped her hand from his shaking her head. "Grace-"
"Don't." She ordered shaking her head. "I really don't want to hear it at the moment, Damon. Alright?" She growled and he shut up fast.
"Where's the body?" Bonnie asked over the awkward silence between the fighting couple. "As long as it's unspelled, Alaric is one witch away from finding it."
"Hidden." Damon answered simply. "I was gonna use Unit 666, but I figured that would be a little obvious." They all stopped in front of the storage unit 1020, Damon placed his hand on the bottom of the door about to slid it up and open. "1020. Mini fridge, a couple of bird cages, a box of old playboys." He pushed it up opening the unit. "And one beef jerkified Original."
They walk to the back of the unit to see the coffin waiting, the witch opened it carefully to see Klaus' body inside, looking grey and dead when suddenly his eyes flashed open, they all jolted at the sight.
"Oh, creepy." Damon tickled his fingers down Grace's side as she remained extremely mad at him for smack talking her sister, but still smiled away.
"I need a minute." Bonnie announced.
"Just jam the witch locator, bat signal or whatever and get on with it, Bonnie." Damon ordered in a low tone.
"Elena, Grace and Jeremy lost Jenna and Alaric because of him. Tyler's a hybrid, my mothers a vampire. Could you just give me a minute to just appreciate the sight of him like this?" The witch countered narrowing her eyes at him, as Grace pulled him from the until closing the door. "You should burn in hell. But if you die, so do my friends. So does my mother. What am I supposed to do about that?"
Stefan and Elena were up in her room speaking about the danger of having Jeremy around Alaric and the vampire was trying to assure her that he would be fine.
"Stefan, make sure Alaric doesn't lay a hand on Jeremy." The doppelgänger ordered in a voice filled with concern.
"Jeremy will be fine." He assured her as he placed both of his hands on her little shoulders looking down into her hypnotizing chocolate-brown orbs. "Between all of us, we'll have the strength in numbers to disarm Alaric." He added and Elena gave him a more than worried look which he countered by caressing her face lovingly. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Lately, I feel like every time someone walks out of this house, there's a chance they may not make it back home." She whimpered tilting her head down to look at the floor, the vampire placed one finger under her chin and made her look up at him.
"Well, I promise I will do everything in my power to make sure that we all come back." He leaned down and connected their lips romantically, she knotted her hands in his hair deepening the kiss for a moment before pulling back to look into each others eyes admiringly.
Damon was sitting next to Grace on a couch in one of the units as they spoke about the future, he had grovelled for her forgiveness about what he had said about her sister and she forgave him. The older vampire was playing with her fingers as she lay with her head on his lap staring up at the ceiling.
"So, Gilbert, what do you think about marriage?" He questioned playing with her ring finger imagining a big diamond ring laying on it, her truly being his. "Would you ever want to... or not?"
"Sure, maybe one day." She answered hoping that was the answer he was looking for. "I mean, we have an eternity together, we have forever to decide what we want to do. Besides, I'm sure you'd get bored with me very soon. I'm kinda boring." She moved herself so she was straddling his waist
"Yeah, I can see that." He joked and she cocked an eye brow at him before leaning her head down and pressing her lips to his, he lead his hand up her shirt playing with the soft silk like skin of her trimmed stomach. "You're right... I'd get bored."
"I hope you're joking." Grace muttered as she trailed her fangs down his throat, he chuckled darkly and twirled his fingers in her super long chocolate-brown locks.
"Never."
"Bite me." She scolded in a deathly tone.
"Happily." He zipped her over onto her back and buried her fangs into her neck making her squirm and squeal under his body. He licked at the already healing wound before going in for round two taking a gulp of her delicious blood when the elevator outside the door dinged telling them someone was here. "Your Barbie best friend is here." Damon muttered dislodging his fans from her slender neck.
"Mmm." Grace whispered as the wound healed, they both walked out of the room when suddenly Grace hit the ground with a thud the loud crack of her neck being snapped echoing the hall.
"Where is Klaus?" Alaric ordered putting Damon into a choke hold as he looked down at Grace concerned for her.
"How did you find us?" He rasped clawing at his hand but the newly made Original was too hard to fight, way to strong for him and his young girlfriend who was already temporarily dead on the floor.
"Oh, you'd be amazed at how competent the law enforcement is when it's not corrupted by vampires." Alaric countered in a low growl. "Now, where is Klaus!?"
"In a storage locker. There's only about a thousand of them, have at it!" Damon passed out and Alaric pushed him to the ground next to his girlfriend before zipping off searching the units for the mummified Original.
Elena was sitting on her window seat looking out of the window hoping for her friends and family to return soon safe and in one piece but she knew that would be for a while, she hated that she couldn't help in any way. She looked over at Matt entered the room with a cup of tea for her handing it over.
"Mm, thank you." She smiled as she took a sip of the hot tea, her face scrunched up as she tasted it, something was in there she had never had before, Matt sat on her neck opposite from her.
"Sorry, I over honeyed. I suck at tea." He admitted shamefully as the young doppelgänger just laughed drinking it appreciatively. "So, Stefan..."
"He saved my life, you know." Elena informed him in a voice full of pride. "I never told you that. The night that my parents' car went over the bridge, Stefan was the one that saved me."
"So, do you feel like you owe him or something?" Matt questioned creasing his eye brows, he had never understood why Elena was with him completely, he had done so many bad things in her life and obviously had a hard time seeing the good things.
"No, it's not that." Elena answered shaking her head. "It's – after the accident, I kind of felt like I didn't know how to live anything, like I didn't want to, but then being with Stefan... it just... somehow I figured it out. And that's what love should be. You should love the person that makes you glad that you're alive." She smiled looking down into her tea for a moment. "He has done so many good things for me, the only reason that I know Grace is my sister is because Stefan told me... Grace is happy with Damon and finally she can move on from Klaus. If the two had never turned up then Grace would be in living hell and I'd be dead from the sacrifice."
"Mmm. I guess so." Matt muttered as he continued to watch Elena drinking her tea as she glanced out the window longingly.
Bonfire Party – Two Years Ago
Elena was about to leave the bonfire party that Bonnie, Grace and Matt had dragged her to when she saw Grace sitting on her own staring down at her phone, walking over to her she took a seat, the smaller brunette gave her a kind smile.
"What's up?"
"Nothing." She muttered before Elena cocked her eye brow at the girl. "Just Tyler... He's talking about us maybe being an item and I just... I don't see us working out, you know? There is something holding me back, I know something is going to come into my life and just... just consume me."
"How do you mean, Grace?"
"I can't explain it." She admitted shaking her head gently. "I just... I have this feeling something is going to change our lives very soon, Elena, I can't put my finger on it, but something is coming. Something big." Elena creased her eye brows.
"I think you're just scared of commitment with Tyler Lockwood." The taller brunette joked and her young friend laughed nodding her head gently.
"Maybe." Grace nodded her head. "Where are you going?"
"Home." Elena answered shrugging her shoulders. "I feel bad about ditching my family on family night, I'm heading home. I'm just about to call my mom, do you want a lift home?"
"No, it's alright, Elena. I'll walk."
Elena shook away in the passenger seat of Matt's drunk that was driving away from Mystic Falls, he had managed to sneak her out of the house without any of the vampires noticing and managed to get her to actually leave with the help of a little sedative in her tea.
"What's going on?" She asked her brain was foggy, she didn't remember falling asleep and began to wonder why she was in Matt's car.
"It's the only way I was going to get you in this truck." Matt answered keeping his eyes on the road refusing to look over at the growing anger on her face.
"The tea." She grumbled rubbing her head painfully. "You drugged me?"
"I'm sorry, Elena, but you're right, ok? You don't have any parents to tell you right from wrong and Grace isn't here to give you guidance she's so caught up in Damon herself Klaus drama she doesn't have time to think about more important things like you... You've got me and Jeremy and a bunch of vampires fighting a war you shouldn't be in the middle of."
"What the hell is going on, Matt." She sat up right in the chair looking out of the window to see how fast he was driving trying to get out-of-town.
"I'm getting you out-of-town, Elena. It's the only way to keep you safe."
Alaric was zipping down the halls breaking the locks off of all the storage units trying to find Klaus but hadn't been able to find Klaus yet, he heard the elevator ding once again and heard heels clicking against the floor.
"Grace! Damon!" Rebekah's sweet British voice called and it echoed around her. "Where are you both?" The new Original pulled out the white oak stake and began to stalk towards where the voice was coming from. "Grace, c'mon, this isn't funny!"
The blonde sauntered down the hall not realising that the hunter was trying to find her when suddenly she was grabbed by Grace who covered her mouth so she wouldn't scream and pulled her into a unit where Damon was waiting.
"Shh! It's me. It's me." Grace assured her turning so she could see her, the blonde's eyes were softer as she saw the girl a sigh of relief falling from her lips.
Alaric growled as he heard Rebekah's heels stop clicking, opening the storage locker of 1020 he looked inside to see that the casket was gone from the room, obviously to him it had always been this empty and hadn't known they had stored it in there.
Grace, Rebekah and Damon were wheeling Klaus' open casket towards a waiting car when suddenly the blondes head smashed against it violently as she fell to the ground groaning in pain holding her head. The youngest vampire zipped around him distracting him for a moment as Damon launched him across the room, but he can back equally as fast throwing Grace across the room making her hit the concrete wall smacking her head hard and kicking Damon across the room so he had a chance to get at Klaus' body.
Rebekah zipped over to help the brunette girl stand as they watched frozen in shock horror as Klaus opened the casket and shoved the indestructible white oak stake into Klaus' open chest.
"No!" Rebekah and Grace screamed at the same time, if Klaus was telling the truth about being the sire of their bloodline then they were screwed, Rebekah held onto the brunette weakly as she watched her brother be destroyed. "No! No!" The blonde added as she let out painful sobs as Klaus' body set aflame.
"Next." Klaus smirked as he yanked the stake out of her brother's body looking over at the blonde who was in no state to fight for herself.
"Run, Bekah. Go! Run!" Grace ordered shoving the blonde to start running, she did taking off into the night running through the sobs that left her mouth, tears that stung her vision Alaric took of after her the stake wielded.
"No." Grace whimpered as she fell to the floor, this was the end for her a her lover, Damon rushed over and knelt next to her holding her tightly. "We're going to die, Damon. I can't die, I haven't lived yet."
"C'mon, Gracie, we can't stay here." Damon held back tears as he picked up his distort girlfriend and moved her into an empty storage unit pulling out his phone calling his younger brother as he held a sobbing Grace in his arms.
"Damon."
"Bad news, brother. Alaric staked Klaus. He's dead." The raven haired vampire brushed the brunettes hair from her face as she snuggled into his chest so scared of dying without doing everything she wanted.
"I feel ok, do you feel anything? How is Grace is she ok?"
"I'm fine, too. But she's scared." Damon whispered holding his girlfriend close as they sat on the floor, her between his legs.
"It took Sage an hour before she got sick." Stefan informed him knowing that Grace already knew that, she had been the one to end Finn's life resulting in the end of Sage and Troy.
"Yeah or Klaus was lying about being the sire of our bloodline." Damon answered it was just a show for Grace trying to get her to calm down but she was so scared shaking in his arms.
"Well, if he wasn't lying, an hour is not enough time to get you both back in Mystic Falls."
"For our epic goodbye, brother."
"For us. For Grace and Elena. Hell, I don't know about you, but I'd like to see you both one more time before I died..." Stefan countered in a mournful voice as Damon passed the phone down to the younger vampire who sniffled as she took it.
"Hello?"
"Grace?" Stefan questioned as he let out a deep sigh. "Hey, how are you holding up?"
"Fine." She whimpered drying her eyes as Damon held her closer kissing the back of her head lovingly linking his fingers with her free hand that was limp on the floor. "I'm going to miss you, Stefan." She sobbed.
"Hey. Hey. Don't cry. Everything is going to be alright, ok?" Stefan cooed as Damon rubbed her hand holding back the tears that threatened to fall breaking his tough guy persona he was putting up for Grace. "But just for the record I'm going to miss you too, you're the best thing that's happened to my brother in a long time."
"Yeah." She choked out sniffling once more. "I heard what you said about us not being able to get home in time. Tell Elena... Tell Elena I loved her and give her a big hug, please." She whimpered and Stefan felt a tear run down his face as he nodded biting on his bottom lip. "I love you, Stefan. As a brother..." She laughed a little.
"I love you too, Grace. As a sister... What I said to you when I was compelled by Klaus and coming off the blood, I didn't mean it... It was the blood talking. I never did say sorry for that."
"I know." Grace whispered nodding a little as she leaned her head back against Damon's chest, at least that was one person she had made peace with before she died. "Here, I'll give you to Damon so you two can say your epic goodbyes." She laughed a little.
Stefan was in the woods after he had just had a talk with his older brother, hanging up his phone he pushed it back into his pocket as Jeremy approached him.
"Stefan. Elena's not at home. Matt and I, we're getting her out-of-town." Jeremy informed him thinking that he would go into a crazy but he just sighed a little.
"Damon seems to think everything is going to be fine, but I know he's just trying to keep it together for Grace. He keeps saying that Klaus was lying, but... I don't know." He whispered when suddenly Elijah and Caroline showed up.
"What happened?" The Original ordered and Stefan didn't say anything.
"Stefan?" The blonde ordered.
"We should say something." Grace whispered now she had finally calmed down, still sitting between Damon's legs in the empty storage unit, he let out a small sigh. "We should say goodbye, you know, just for when... You know..."
"What do you want me to say, Gracie?"
"Whatever you want to say." Grace answered turning around to she was looking at him still holding his hands. "I want you to tell me what you are really are feeling. How you really feel about me."
"I've never loved anyone more than I love you. I know if I ever lost you I would never be the same again that's why I fight so hard for you, but I don't want to trap you... I want to give you choices, but I'm scared you'll make the wrong ones and... and I can't deal with losing you." Damon answered closing his eyes leaning his head back against the wall, she nodded as she continued to listen. "When I lost you... I hated it... I hated how upset you were, how you actually turned for Klaus for help. I thought I had lost you forever." She pressed a firm kiss to his lips to stop him from going any further.
"I love you, Damon Salvatore, you've made my life better than it ever could be." She whispered as she kissed his lips once more.
Damon pulled away from her lips as he said "Can I tell you something?"
"Of course."
"I never wanted you to be a vampire either." Damon whispered as he ran her hand over her cheeks carefully, she looked timidly into her eyes. "And if you ever wanted this I wanted to do it right. I wanted it to be right for you, not something you were cursed with."
"This isn't a curse, Damon." She leaned her forehead to his closing her eyes for a moment before opening them and looked into his skeptical icy blue orbs. "It isn't."
"How can you say that? This might be the end."
"Well, at least then my end with be with you." She countered in a sure voice. "I wouldn't want to die any other way than in your arms, Salvatore."
"I've never been more in love with you." He growled as he pulled her down into a heated passionate kiss that made her tremble with pleasure as he rubbed the back of her neck.
"I've always been insanely in love with you." She answered with a small smile pressing her lips to his once more before he pulled away.
"I need to tell you something else... I knew you before you knew me." He informed her and she gave him a questionable look unsure to what he meant.
Grace's room – Two Years Ago
Damon skulked around young Grace's room searching through all of her stuff whilst she showered singing loudly, intoxicated. He had searched through her phone to see that this young fleshy human was not Fayth, whom he had been searching for.
He smiled a little when he heard her sing louder, the shower suddenly shut off and Damon hid himself as Grace walked from the room with a little white towel tied around her tiny petite body her longish chocolate-brown locks hanging loosely around her shoulders.
"Hmm, that's weird. I swear I left my phone in here." She muttered as Damon looked down to see he was still holding her phone in his hand, she shrugged her shoulders as she dropped her towel to the floor, the vampire couldn't believe it when he looked away from the teens tempting body giving her privacy.
She climbed into her bed falling asleep almost instantly snoring lightly, he smiled to himself as he walked towards her laying her phone back down on the side leaning down to press the most subtle of kisses to her temple, she stirred in her sleep but did not wake up.
"Goodnight, Angel. I hope I meet you soon." He whispered running his hands through her damp chocolate-brown locks before zipping from the room.
"You saw me naked?"
"No, no. I looked away." Damon answered honestly and she laughed a little pressing her lips against his firmly when suddenly her phone started to vibrate in her pocket, pulling away he layered her neck with butterfly kisses as she answered her phone breathlessly. "Hey Elena."
"How are you both feeling? Are there any symptoms?" She asked nervously as she sat in the front seat on Matt's car gnawing on her thumb nail anxiously.
"Not yet." Grace answered as Damon worked on her neck more, suckling the skin into his mouth nibbling it and so on. "Where are you?" She could hear the roar on an engine.
"Matt's taking me home."
"To Stefan." Grace whispered a small part of her was screaming at her, she was her sister, she was supposed to see her before she died, but if she was in Elena's situation she would hate to have to choose between Damon and her.
"Not just to Stefan, Grace. To Tyler, to Caroline."
"I know." Grace whimpered as Damon looked up at her concerned seeing the tears in her eyes. "I guess this is where we say we're glad that we found out we were related and stuff?"
"Yeah." Elena choked out a sob. "I guess it is... I really am, Grace. I always thought of you as a sister to me, but I guess being my twin just confirmed that."
"I guess it did." Grace smiled a little. "You're the only real sibling I've ever had. Before that I was an only child and now I have a whole family, an amazing boyfriend. My life is perfect." She ran her hand over Damon's smooth cheek.
"You're gonna be fine." Elena's voice grew stronger, she didn't want to think about her twin giving up on everything she had gained in her short life. "You hear me, Grace Gilbert. You're going to be ok and I'm going to see you soon."
"Real soon." Grace whispered as the door to the storage unit opened and Alaric stood in the doorway, Damon growled as he saw him and both the vampires stood up. "Bye, 'Lena." She hung up and slid her phone into her pocket. "I take it Goldilocks gave you the slip..." Alaric rushed forward Damon stood in front of her and took the punch.
Caroline rushed down into the Lockwood Cellar in a blind panic looking for her hybrid boyfriend, they might not had been affected by Klaus' sire bloodline just yet, but Tyler was a true hybrid of him, he was would not live long after like the vampires would.
"Tyler! Tyler!" She stopped in the middle of the cellar running her hands through her curled blonde looks to see that he wasn't there like he said he would be. "Oh my God!"
"Caroline?" A gruff voice walked into the room and she launched herself over to him wrapping her arms around his neck smelling his masculine scent filling her whole body. "Tyler! Oh my God!"
"Hey, sorry, I was just with Bonnie." He answered and they pulled away, still stay close to each other, the hybrid caught how distort the young vampire was as she stared up into his dark brown orbs. "What happened?"
"Klaus died. He's dead."
"You're going to be fine, Caroline." He assured her in a loving tone, but it wasn't herself that she was worried about, it was more of her hybrid boyfriend that her heart ached for.
"No it's no me that I'm worried about."
"There's no point." Tyler muttered putting his head down, he knew his fate, he knew what was in store for him. "I'm a lost cause, but you're strong and you have a beautiful future ahead of you. And when you make it through this, just tell my mother I left town like I was supposed to, ok?" He kissed her passionately as they held each other close and lovingly when suddenly Tyler began to call out in pain, he fell to the floor coughing and clutching his chest. "Do you feel anything?" He asked when he managed to control himself.
"No, I feel fine." She answered.
"I need you to get out of here." Tyler ordered giving her a pleading look, the last thing he wanted was for her to see him die in front of her. "I don't want you to watch me die."
"No, I'm not leaving!" She answered as he began to call out in pain once again, she knelt by his side coaching him through it as best she could. "I'm staying."
"No."
"Yes!"
"You run, or I'll make you run." He threatened looking at her, he didn't want to accidentally hurt he too.
"I'm not leaving." She answered nervously when suddenly he began to transform, she froze in fear as she saw his amber eyes staring at her intensely with authority behind them.
"Go!"
The blonde sobbed as she rushed out of the cellar her break was breaking into a thousand mini piece at the thought of her only love dying all on his own.
A little while later Elena was sitting in the car speaking to Caroline on the phone with tears in her eyes drying them with the back of her hand.
"You too, Care." She whispered as she hung up sliding her phone into her pocket looking over at Matt who was waiting on the news. "It's Tyler, he um... he's..."
"Damn it!" Matt cursed as he began to choke up, his best friend was dead due to vampires, first he had to go through the curse of being a werewolf, then through the curse of being a sired hybrid to Klaus and now he was dead. "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" He growled as he hit the steering wheel repeatedly.
"Matt, Matt! No. Stop it!" Elena ordered him trying to calm him.
"This isn't how our lives were supposed to be, Elena."
Elijah was standing in the woods all on his own with a thoughtful look on his face when suddenly his blonde sister appeared in front of him with tears in her crystal blue orbs, she had never looked so fragile and human.
"He's gone, Elijah." Rebekah stuttered over her words. "There was nothing I could do to stop it." He strode over and caught her in his arms hugging her tightly, like a brother shoulder when his baby sister was upset.
"Tyler Lockwood is dead, but the rest survived." Elijah noted aloud, he was so confused about which Original started the bloodline for the rest of the vampires, it wasn't himself. "You said Niklaus turned their bloodline."
"I thought he did." Rebekah answered sniffling as she pulled back to look into his wide, glassy eyes.
"It wasn't me, it wasn't Kol."
"It wasn't me, Elijah. It was Niklaus, I'm sure of it." Rebekah voice was full of certainty, if that was the case all those vampires were meant to be at least sick by not, if not dead.
"Then how are they still alive?" Elijah muttered deep in thought.
Bonnie entered the Lockwood Cellar sneakily pushing the door opened and closing it after her, she walked into the middle of the room and looked around not seeing anyone. "I know you're here." She called.
With that Tyler walked out of the shadows of the room where he had hidden and said. "I must say you really did that spell brilliantly. I didn't think you had it in you." His voice was clearer than usual, a certain posh tone to it.
"I did it to save my friends and my mother, Klaus. Not you." Bonnie answered crossing her hands over her chest revealing that she had put Klaus' soul into Tyler's body keeping the Original alive once more so that her friends and family could live.
Klaus tisked shaking young Tyler's head in the process. "The spirits won't be happy with you."
"The spirits don't get to tell me what to do anymore." Bonnie answered creasing her light brown eyes, she was so fed up of everything pushing her around and telling her what she could and couldn't do, she was a witch and she could do what she wanted. "I done getting pushed around by all of you. I did it because I wanted to."
Stefan was pacing the floor in the woods waiting for anymore news on where Elena was, or what was happened with Klaus maybe being their sire to their bloodline, but he felt fine, he just prayed that the rest of his friends and family did.
His phone began to ring and he pulled it from his pocket looking at the ID to see that Unknown was calling, hitting answered he greeted. "Hello?"
"You're alive. Congratulations." Rebekah's voice was stronger now from where she had cried, but her congratulations was filled with spite and sarcasm, they made had all still been alive but Alaric was still out there and her brother was dead. She was hurting.
"Rebekah."
"Elijah spoke to Elena. Her and Matt should be arriving back in town any minute." The blonde informed him and Stefan let out a breathy sigh of relief.
"Yeah, he told me that." Stefan announced nodding his head. "He also said you two would be long gone out-of-town by now." He added, no one in their family wanted the Original's to stick around after all this, but deep down Stefan knew he wouldn't get ride of them that easily and that this wouldn't be the last of them.
"That's the problem." Rebekah muttered. "Elijah says we have to run, that the hunter will keep coming after us, but I don't want to run anymore, Stefan. I spent my whole life running." She told him in a sick voice, she was done with having to run from people, she just wanted to be able to stop for a moment and appreciate what she had, but all she had ever done was run her whole life.
"What are you talking about? We had a deal."
"I'm sorry, but Klaus is dead." There was deep regret within her voice when she mourned the loss of her older brother. "There is no deal. If my brothers and I are going to survive, we need to get rid of Alaric and only way to get rid of Alaric..." The statement hung in the dry air for a moment making Stefan stiffen.
"Rebekah, no!"
Elena was looking down at her phone which continued to flash that she was running low on battery not that they were coming close to Mystic Falls once more. "I need to call Stefan, but my phone is dying."
"Here." Matt pulled out his phone from his pocket whilst driving with one hand. "Use mine." He handed it over as he turned the corner about to drive over Wickery Bridge, the same place where Elena had lost her adoption parents a couple of years back.
"Thanks." She smiled when suddenly she looked back at the road to see a blonde standing there directly in the road, Matt hadn't seen her yet. "Matt, look out!" He swerved to avoid the Original who watched them as they went over the edge smashing through the guardrail into the water.
Wickery Bridge – Two Years Ago
Elena was coughing and spluttering as she woke in the back seat of her parents car as they both drove her home from the bonfire party her friends had dragged her to, she began to panic when she saw that their car was submerging into the water under Wickery Bridge.
"Dad!?" She called as she Dad sat in the drivers seat trying not to panic, trying to work out what he could do to save him family from certain doom. "Dad!"
"We're gonna be ok. I promise." He tried to calm her but she was panicking like her mother.
"Dad!" She called as the car began to sunk down deep into the water.
Alaric launched Grace across the room and she landed onto of Klaus' now very dead body, she groaned as she looked up at the ceiling, Damon and her were being beaten by this Original who was taking it's aggression out on them. He punched Damon even more until he fell down to the ground almost unconscious.
"You're both not going to fight back?" he saw Grace drag herself from the coffin falling to the floor with a thud, she was so weak and Damon could see this.
"You're kind of invincible, Ric." Damon answered in a deeply sarcastic tone, Alaric lashed out and kicked him in the stomach as he growled at him.
"Don't call me that." He kicked the raven hair vampire in the face making him spit out blood, he zipped over to Grace's side as Alaric stalked over to them both. "We're not friends."
"We were."
"well, our friendship was part of the problem." The new Original answered narrowing his green orbs darkly. "It's what kept me weak. It's also why I took so long for the real me to break through and now I'm going to break you. Both of you." Damon reached out and took his girlfriends hand seeing her cry mouthing 'I love you' which she returned.
He stomped on Grace's stomach making her call out before kicking Damon in the face once more, she was rolling in pain and Damon dried the blood before growling at him. "Is that all you got?"
"Not quiet." He answered grabbing Grace by her hair standing her up and holding a wooden stake to her chest, Damon didn't waste anytime in grabbing the stake from his hand throwing it across the room and punching Alaric in the face so he let his weak girlfriend go.
Matt's truck quickly flooded with water as it sunk to the bottom of the lake, the doppelgänger woke up and glanced over at Matt whose eyes were shut she began to shake him trying to wake him up. She could remember when she had been trapped in a car before, her dad had tried to bust the window open, but he had not luck, but maybe with Matt's older car, she slammed her elbow into it trying to break it but nothing seemed to be working.
Leaning her head back she knew this was it, this was the end, Matt wasn't going to wake up and they were going to die together. Suddenly a face appeared the other side of the window, it was Stefan. Her hero.
He ripped the door off with all of his supernatural strength and leaned over for Elena who was currently still awake, but her lungs were filling up fast, she pushing him towards Matt but he shook his head and tried to take her again. She persisted that he got out Matt first. He gave her a loving look as he couldn't save them both and she seemed to accept that. He broke Matt's seatbelt and swam Matt back to the surface.
As he did Elena could feel her life being drained from her, she never thought her life would end like this. The same way her parents passed. Letting out her last few air bubbles her eyes fluttered closed. Dead.
Alaric and Damon continued to struggle when suddenly Alaric began to feel weak, his skin going a pale grey colour as he fell to the floor, Grace looked over confused as she pulled herself to her feet slowly.
"What's happening?" Alaric rasped as he fell onto his back, Damon and Grace were so confused, but that meant if Alaric was dead. Then Elena was dead.
"No! Please. No." Grace launched herself over to the Originals side more tears falling, Damon was shaking his head as he held Grace in his arms. "Please, don't be dead. Please." She begged but it was too late, the Original died.
Much later Elena was laying in the morgue on a stretched as Stefan stood next to her with tears in his eyes watching his dead lover on the table. They had only just got back together. This wasn't fair.
The doors to the hospital opened and Grace stormed in seriously angry, Damon followed trying to calm her down, but her temper and emotions were through the roof at the thought of her sister being dead.
Damon took her hands. "Gracie, stop. Stop."
"Where is she?!" Grace roared, people backed away as Damon caught her in his arms trying to calm her, luckily Dr. Fell was there and walked over to them both with a look of grief and sorrow on her face.
"No, Grace. You have to stop-"
"Where is she!?" Grace ordered but Meredith grabbed her arm making the vampire face her, she was so close just to shoving this woman away and finding her sister.
"You need to know, when Jeremy brought Elena in here earlier tonight, her injuries were worse than I let on. It wasn't a concussion, it was a cerebral haemorrhage, bleeding of the brain." She explained in terms Grace would understand.
Running her ands through her thick chocolate-brown hair Grace winced a little looking up at the woman with teary eyes. "What are you saying?"
"He was so worried, I didn't want to tell him, but I – I helped her. She needed my help." Meredith explained slowly, shock appeared over Grace's before it turned to anger, Damon shook his head as he held Grace back.
"You what?" She growled.
In the morgue Stefan was surprised when Elena's eyes burst open and she took a deep gasp inwards revealing that she was now in transition to becoming a vampire.
A/N
So (sniff sniff) this is it for now until October that is! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I have been writing it and talking to all of you! I know this took a while to get out, but I struggled writing it, I was so sad I had to stop the story.
Tell me what you want to see next season from Drace, Grace. I'll tell you what I want to see, I want to see Grace turn into a little Damon and stand up for herself, I mean, she's going to be hurting, so why not!
Oh, I would have added my new story today, but I'm not sure how I feel about it yet plus, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, so like as a present you could maybe review, please :)
If you left a review on the last chapter then it will be just below, thank you so much to every for all the support and I hope you all enjoyed.
SerenaDanaRed80 – wow, that's a long review, but I loved reading it all! It totally agreed with all of it, and everyone loves Caroline, I think Grace is in denial at points, but she ended up with the right person in the end.
Anna – Aww, thank you so much, gonna make me cry if you're not careful! Yeah, new season I'm going to put in more of Grace's strengths and telepathy because I just want her to become stronger as a person.
OBSESSEDwithPOWERS – I agree with you, raunchy motel sex is always good!
winxgirl1997 – I'm sorry if this was a little longer than I wanted it to be.
Amanda – Thank you!
Chloe – Stelena and Drace are the best!
Mia Salvatore – God, I'm going to miss this story, too. I'm not sure what I'm going to do without it, probably write another good story, I hope! xoxo
xxxRena – I know, poor Grace, I always feel she draws the short straw, but I guess that's just life sometimes, especially when you have a crazy hybrid and a blue eyed vampire there to protect you!
David Fishwick – Thank you so much!
Storylover3 – I know what you mean aha!
TheElegantFaerie – Yeah, I wanted Grace to be with Damon if they were to die and I wanted the sad goodbye to be over the phone, because I wouldn't be able to deal with Damon and Grace saying goodbye over the phone.
ADORATIO – Me too! Can't wait till October!
Destined2RunWithTheWolves – Thank you! x
SomebodyWhoCares – Touchy touchy Damon is the best! Along with protective Damon!
pieperson9708 – I totally agree with you, Damon just needs a break the poor guy, but you know, with the Damon/OC stories he's always going to be happy in some way (Well at least you hope) x
SharkGurl – I think you're right he might have had some kind of chance with Grace, but she saw him for what he truly was a murdering psychopathic killing machine, not like Damon hasn't killed before, but he didn't kill anyone so important to her. I'm thinking of going Klaroline on this story, maybe if Klaus can get over Grace for a minute to see the gorgeous Caroline!
susl – Can't wait till October, the new story might be up soon hopefully!
grapejuice101 – I know, but people do crazy things when they are psychopathic Originals trying to murder all vampires. It sucks, but it's true.
Annaella – I would love some ideas for Drace oneshots. About the relationships like Drace just know each other so well and really love each other. Really. And like you said Klace is just sheer lust and blood bond which according to Grace is gone, but maybe it's not who knows! Xx
Graciiee