Elena knew it was crazy to stay in the car with Stefan, but she had been drinking and he offered her a ride home.

The moment Elena got in the car, Stefan became unhinged, far from the boy she once knew and loved – was this the true Stefan and the one she had fallen for was a façade?

No.

It couldn't be true. Not aftereverythingthey went through.

Damon, the tomb Vampires, Katherine, and now Klaus and his hybrid army.

Stefan sped through the town of Mystic Falls, Elena noticed that he didn't go down the street that led to her home or to the Salvatore Boarding house, she glanced over at him.

"You missed the turn off back there," She spoke, pulling out her phone as a text from Jeremy appeared only for Stefan to snatch it and throw it out the window. "Hey! Okay, you're really starting to scare me Stefan, let me out of the car."

When he did not answer her, Elena sighed as Stefan was too busy typing something on his phone.

"Stefan,stopthe car!"

"What is it now, Damon?" Klaus spoke in a taunting voice towards the older Salvatore brother, not really bothered by Damon's sudden need to speak with him. "You pulled me away from a very interesting conversation about landscaping the town square."

Obviously, that was alie. The mayor had been talking Klaus's ear off for the past hour trying to get donations for the landscaping project and Klaus was seriously holding himself back from ripping out Mayor Lockwood's heart just so the woman would shut up, thankfully, his saving grace came in the form of Damon Salvatore.

Klaus looks at the painting that was hanging on the wall, pondering if he could kill Damon now and make it back in time to hear the end of the conversation about the town square.

"Stefan just grabbed Elena."

Klaus let out a scoff, turning to face Damon with a smirk pasted on his lips. "He's gettingdesperate. Grasping at straws, if you will."

"He took Elena to try and use her againstyou." Damon growled, annoyed that Klaus didn't see the urgency in the matter. "Do what he says. Get rid of your hybrids."

"Or what?" Klaus taunted, smelling the random flower bouquet that was on the table. "Stefan wouldneverhurt her. He loves hertoomuch, you and I both knowthat, Damon."

"Areyousure? I don't believe that- he just tried beheading someone in the council cause he was bored." Damon replied, trying to make Klaus see reason.

This was Elena's life on the line.

"He's operating on crazy right now."

"Crazy or not, that kind of loveneverdies," Klaus spoke, some humour behind his tone. "He's bluffing."

"If you don't believe him, then believe me. I know my brother- yes, he's desperate at the moment." Damon was now toe to toe with Klaus. "But right now, I'm not even sure how far he's willing to go. If she dies, Elena's blood will be onyourhands."

Klaus scoffed at Damon's words, obviously Stefan wouldn't kill Elena Gilbert, he loves the human doppelganger and when Klaus was about to point that out, Damon cornered him, which annoyed Klaus more than the Salvatore's threat.

"So, if he says blink, you better blink."

"What's your plan then, huh?" Elena asked, sighing out in frustration as her pleas fell onto deaf ears. "Is this your big move against Klaus?Kidnapping?"

"I took Klaus's family from him to make him suffer," Stefan smirked darkly, pressing down on the accelerator, which made Elena grab hold of her seatbelt like it was her lifeline. "I'm not going to stand idly by and let him makeanotherone."

"So is your plan hiding me away until Klaus gives up the idea of making hybrids?" Elena asked, rolling her eyes at Stefan's idiotic thinking. "Lock me up and keep me as your hostage?"

Stefan let out a dark chuckle, glancing at her. "No. I could always turn you into a vampire."

"Stopthe car, Stefan!"

Her pleas died over the roaring of the engine as Stefan pushes the accelerator more, scrolling through his phone until he found the number he was looking for.

Klaus.

"Ah, Stefan! How nice to hear your voice."

"Tell your hybrids to get out of town, Klaus."

Elena could tell that Klaus rolled his eyes."Can't do that til I get my coffins back."

"Okay, well how about I just drive yourbloodsource off Wickery Bridge?"

Elena looked at him in horror, he knew that her parents died there.

Did he just say that?

"What?"

"Don't believe you."Klaus called Stefan's bluff."You won't do it. You love hertoomuch to put her life in danger."

"You see that's where you'rewrong, Klaus. Ididlove her," Stefan growled, glancing over at Elena. "That was until you told me to turn off my humanity."

Klaus fell silent for a few seconds as Damon's warnings about Stefan's actions, Stefan took that silence as a challenge, so he bit down on his wrist and forced fed Elena some of his blood.

At the sound of the scuffle, Elena's cough and breathing hard, Klaus began to worry."What was that?"

"Just fed Elena some of my blood," Stefan taunts, in the very same tone Klaus was using earlier. "Can't make any more hybrids if she's a vampire, now, can you?"

"You're bluffing,"

"Yousure?" Stefan taunted, now more unhinged then ever which worried both Elena and Klaus as Stefan pushes down on the accelerator more, making the car jerk and serve from the amount of speed on the wet road. "Cause your coffins are next to go."

"Stopthe car, Stefan!" Elena cries as the bridge was in view. "Please!"

"Fine,"Klaus growled, closing his eyes at Elena's cries over the phone."You win."

Elena grips the seatbelt tighter as they were now on the bridge, she glances at Stefan with wide eyes. "Stefan,slow down! He said he'll get rid of the hybrids!"

"Stop the car, Stefan!"

Stefan slams on the brakes, but it was too late as the car spun out of control and hit the railing, falling into the watery depths below.

All Klaus could hear was Elena's screams and the sound of metal crashing against water.

"No!"

Elena coughed as water filled the car, seeping through the cracks in the glass, panic made her blood turn cold as she realized that she was stuck.

"Stefan..." She called, only to notice that he had freed himself and was looking at her with some kind of emotion that she couldn't name. "Stefan, I'm stuck."

She yanked on the seatbelt as Stefan was hesitant to do anything, and then heleft.

He fucken left her!

"STEFAN!"

Taking what little air she could, Elena fought against the darkness that was creeping in, finally she was freed from the seatbelt but still trapped in the sinking car, Stefan was gone and Elena began to panic.

She couldn't die, nothere! Not when Jeremy stillneededher. Sheneededto fight; she will fight. When it her time to die, she'll greet death as an old friend, butnottoday.

Suddenly an arm grabbed hold of her by the wrist, Elena hopped that Stefan had some humanity left and came back to save her, she even thought that it was Damon;finallytracked her down and pulled her from her would-be watery grave.

But it wasn'tStefannor was it,Damon.

Elena gasped as the cold night's air danced across her face, taking in needed breaths as she turned to face her saviour, her eyes widened as familiar face stared back.

"Klaus...?"

Was all she said before the darkness won and she fainted from exhaustion.