❪ 𝓢𝑰𝑿 𝓕𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝓤𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹 ❫ ⚰️ ˖ ׁ ⁩ 𓂃
𝚃𝚅𝙳  ⸻  ✸ 🔮⭑.ᐟ
❝ 𝖧𝖮𝖭𝖮𝖱 𝖨𝖭 𝖱𝖤𝖵𝖤𝖭𝖦𝖤 ❞

✦ ╮ 𝟒𝟏. ❝ 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖲𝖴𝖭 𝖠𝖫𝖲𝖮 𝖱𝖨𝖲𝖤𝖲 ❞ ── .✦

𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗦𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗡 the old witches house along with Jeremy and Bonnie, flipping through pages of old grimoires, the very ones that they had taken from Jonas and Luka's apartment.

"This is useless. All these grimoires. There has to be something in here to keep Elena from becoming a vampire." Jeremy tells the two girls.

"And we'll keep looking." Bonnie says, turning her head to look at him, "Until that last minutes."

"I should have brought mine from the house." Anastasia sighed, running her fingers threw her hair, pulling the dark strands into a high ponytail, feeling the frustration creeping up on her.

Bonnie turns to look at her with a shocked look, "You have your own grimoires?"

"Bonnie, I've been a witch for over a hundred years, yes, I have my own." The Salvatore girls tells the Bennett witch.

"Can I see them?"

"No other witch, human or supernatural creature can touch them other than me and Kol. Anyone else who touches them, burn. I have them spelled."

彡☆

OUTSIDE, ELIJAH, STEFAN AND Alaric arrive, walking across the yard towards the house.

"The sacrifice is completed in stages as the full moon sets. First the werewolf is killed, then the vampire. Finally the doppelganger." Elijah tells the other two, "Once Elena dies, the curse will be broken. Klaus will become a hybrid."

"So when do we attack?" Alaric asked.

"Elena's death will activate his dormant werewolf side. He'll be vulnerable during the transformation. That's when Bonnie comes in."

"And you're sure Bonnie will survive this?" Stefan asked.

"If she can deliver him to the brink of death, I'll finish the job myself." Elijah tells him.

Stefan's phone start's ringing and he picks it up, walking away from Elijah and Alaric. "Damon."

"You're not going to like what I'm about to say." Damon tells him.

"Cut to the chase. Is the sacrifice happening or not?" Stefan asked him.

"It's happening. I tried to stop it, but it got...complicated."

"We're sticking with the original plan. We're meeting Bonnie right no."

"He got Jenna, Stefan."

"What?"

"He got Katherine to lure her out of the house."

Stefan looks back at Alaric, worried.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Alaric asked him.

"Oh, my God."

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"WHICH ONE ARE YOU reading?" Anastasia mumbled as she walks over to Jeremy, wrapping her arms around his shoulders.

"Emily Bennett's. There's a section on spells she did for my ancestor, Jonathan Gilbert." Jeremy tells her.

"Yeah, I was four back then, but even I could tell she had a thing for him." Anastasia gave a small smirk towards Bonnie, who playfully rolled her eyes at the hybrid.

"There's something on a resuscitation spell she was working on." Jeremy tells the two.

"I saw that, too." Bonnie says, "She just didn't explain what it did, exactly."

"Well, maybe Jonathan wrote about it in his journals. You know, I can have Stefan bring them." Jeremy says before his girlfriends head snaps towards the door, "What? Baby, what is it?"

"Someone's here."

Alaric walks down the stairs and into the basement.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Jeremy asked the history teacher.

"Elijah and Stefan are upstairs." Alaric turns to the two girls, "You both mind if I have a second with Jeremy?"

"Sure, yeah. Of course." Bonnie says before the two girls leave the basement. "What do you think that's about?"

"I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about any of this anymore."

彡☆

"WHY DID HE TAKE Jenna?" Bonnie asked as she and Anastasia now stood outside with Elijah and Stefan.

"A punishment for meddling." Elijah tells them.

"Klaus was going to use Tyler and Caroline. Anastasia figured out that Tyler was the werewolf when he called her this morning." Stefan motioned towards his niece. "She and Damon rescued them both."

"Then we need to go. Now." Bonnie tells the three vampires, "Before Jenna's been sacrificed. I can kill Klaus myself."

"Bonnie....if you use that much power, you'll be dead." Stefan says, "We're already been through this. It's not an option."

"Neither is letting Jenna die."

"Well, Stefan would agree with you." Elijah tells him.

Bonnie and Anastasia share confused looks at Stefan takes a step forward.

"We're going to offer another vampire. One that he'll want to use. Me."

彡☆

"BONNIE DID THE LOCATOR spell." Elijah says as he and Anastasia walk towards Stefan.

"They're at Steven's Quarry." Anastasia sighed.

"I'll head over there first and you'll follow with Bonnie when it's time." Stefan says to the two of them.

"Just as the moon hits its final phase. She's to stay hidden until then." Elijah said, "He cannot know that she's alive."

Stefan nods and begins to walk away as Anastasia tries to blink back tears, accidentally letting one fall from her eye.

"You're very honorable." Elijah says, causing Stefan to turn back to Elijah.

"Are you? Because this whole plan is, um, it's contingent upon your honor, Elijah."

"I won't fail you." Elijah tells him.

"Klaus is your brother. I know I've wanted to kill my brother a thousand times. I've never been able to." Stefan said.

"Well, Klaus was not my only brother. I had siblings; parents. I had a family." Elijah started, letting Anastasia slip her hand into his, giving it a firm squeeze, "Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down one by one and he took them from me. He took Kol from Anastasia. And then he scattered them across the seas where their bodies could not be found."

"You want revenge."

"Sometimes there's honor in revenge." Anastasia says. "Uncle Stefan, Elijah isn't going fail you. Or me."

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"WE FOUND SOMETHING IN the Gilbert journals." Bonnie tells Damon as they stood in the basement.

"Jonathan journaled he story of a mother who called on Emily's services. The woman's baby was sick, dying. Emily cast as spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child." John tells them.

"Skip to the save Elena part."

"Well, the child died, but the mother's life force flowed through her, restoring her to life." John say.

"We already know Elena's going to come back to life. But she'll be a vampire." Jeremy tells his uncle.

"Not if her soul remains intact."

"Her soul, really?" Damon asked, skeptically. "You're going to put your faith in some act of god mumbo jumbo?"

John walked forward, closing the gap between he and Damon, "I refuse to let Elena become the thing I've spent my life protecting her against. And you can call that God or mystical energy, whatever you want, but yes...I'm putting my faith in it."

彡☆

DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, Bonnie hold John's head between her hands, chanting a spell. Anastasia had volunteered to do it to help Bonnie save her energy, but John didn't want the vampire anywhere near his head, or his neck for that matter.

So she, along with her boyfriend and father, stood in the back.

"Come on, Bonnie." Damon snaps his fingers, "We got a hybrid to kill."

Bonnie opens her eyes, "It's done."

"That's it?" Damon asked, "Let's go."

He walks out of the room along with Bonnie as Jeremy pulls Anastasia to close to him, John turning around to give the two a little privacy.

"Hey, listen to me. Come back to me, okay?" Jeremy whispered, resting his forehead against hers. "Promise me, that you'll come back."

"I can't make that promise, Jeremy." Anastasia tells him, her eyes filling with tears. "I can't. I love you, so much. Okay? I haven't felt this way about someone since Daniel. And someone once told me that love is a vampire's greatest weakness, but I don't believe that. You are everything that makes me stronger. I love you."

"I love you."

Anastasia smiles at her boyfriend before placing her lips onto his. Once the two pull away, Jeremy smiles down at the green eyed girl before a confused look washed over his face just before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he starts to fall to the floor.

John catches his nephew, "Easy, easy. Go, I'll stay with him."

Anastasia looks back at her boyfriend once more before walking up the stairs where Bonnie, her dad, Alaric and Elijah were at.

"It's time." Elijah says once she's at the top of the stairs.

"Alright. I got weapons in the car." Alaric tells them.

"Bonnie and Anastasia is the only weapons we need."

Damon and Bonnie walk out of the old witches house without looking back at the other, Elijah, Alaric and Anastasia following with the two vampires being the only ones able to leave the house.

"Bonnie! Ana!" Alaric calls out as he's stopped by an invisible barrier. "What is this?"

Bonnie stops and looks behind her, "We can't put anyone else as risk."

"I can't stay here with Jenna out there!" Alaric calls.

"I'm sorry."

"You can't do this! Damon?!"

"Sorry, buddy. She's right."

"No! You can't do this! Bonnie! Bonnie!" Alaric angrily hits the doorframe."

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"ELENA....," JENNA SIGHS AS SHE WATCHES her niece pace around the ring of fire around the two of them.

"I have to do something." Elena says, shaking her head, "This can't happen. None of it."

Klaus and Stefan come down from the cliff, approaching Elena and Jenna.

"Quit the predicament. You know, it's funny, all this talk about preserving family, and here's Stefan, granting your wish." Klaus tells Elena.

"Stefan....,"

"It's okay." Stefan said to his girlfriend.

"Well," Klaus points a steak between Jenna and Stefan, "Who's it going to be, Elena?"

"No."

"Oh, don't worry. There's actually no choice." Klaus speeds around Stefan and stakes him in the back, causing Stefan to scream out in pain and crumble to the ground.

"No! Stefan! No!"

Klaus rips the stake out of Stefan's back, leaving a sizable chunk of wood in his back, "I have other plans for your boyfriend. I want him alive. But for now.....," He snaps Stefan's neck, making Elena gasp in shock. "Whenever you're ready, Greta."

Greta begins chanting the next part of the spell which dispels the ring of fire surrounding Jenna.

Jenna looks on with a frightened expression on her face while Elena, teary-eyed, watches on.

"No."

"Your turn." Klaus tells Jenna.

"No, Jenna, no!" Elena attempts to get to Jenna, but the fire around her grows bigger.

Jenna looks over at her, "It's alright, Elena. I know what I have to do." After a moment of shared silence between the aunt and niece, Jenna uses her new found abilities to speed towards Greta and bites into her neck.

Klaus speeds over to Jenna and stakes her in the back, pulling her away from Greta, who falls to the floor.

Jenna gasps and Klaus releases her, causing Jenna to fall on the ground as Elena cries.

"Jenna, no!"

The Sommers woman looks up at Elena with tears in her eyes.

"Just turn it off Jenna." Elena tells her, "Turn it off. You won't be scared anymore."

Klaus flips Jenna over onto her back and hunches over her. Jenna seems less frightened when Klaus stakes her through the heart.

"No! Jenna! No! Jenna!" Elena cries in earnest as Jenna's body starts to become grey and decayed.

Klaus releases the stake from his grasp and stands up as Jenna lays lifeless on the stone with the stake through her heart.

Greta begins changing the next part of the spell as Klaus is now by her side. Stefan wakes up, able to feel the stake broke off in his back, and reaches for it but he's not flexible enough to do it. He looks up at Elena and seas her tear stained cheeks before looking over at Greta and sees Jenna's dead body.

"No."

Greta pours Jenna's blood into the ceremonial bowl.

"I'm so sorry."

Elena places a finger to her lips to keep him quiet. "Are they going to kill him?" She whispers.

"Yes." He whispers back.

Klaus approaches Elena, "It's time."

The circle of fire disappears from around Elena and she looks up at him. The original extends his hand towards her but Elena stands up from the ground on her own, walking by him and ignoring him as she makes her way to the slab of concrete, looking down at her aunts lifeless body.

Klaus follows behind her, grabbing her face in his hand. Below them, Stefan struggles to get up from the ground as Klaus turns the doppelgangers face so that she's looking up at him.

"Thank you, Elena."

"Go to hell."

Stefan continues to struggle, but falls back to the ground, too weak to move. Elena stares out, blankly as Klaus sinks his fangs into her neck, draining Elena of her blood. Stefan watches on, helplessly.

Klaus holds Elena tightly as his eyes starts to sprout more veins. Her eyelids flutter and her eyes roll into the back of her head as she dies.

He releases her, her body falling to the ground as her blood drips from his chin, and the flame that was in the bowl is extinguished. Elena's body lays lifeless and Stefan stares at her, sadly, and lowers his head to the ground. Klaus breathes heavily and walks down the stone steps.

"I can feel it. It's happening." Klaus says.

He looks up at the full moon and suddenly, his bones begin to crack as he starts to transform. His eyes turn yellow like that of a werewolf, but he still has the veins under his eyes, like a vampire.

"Yes, yes!"

Suddenly, he's thrown through the air as the flames in the bowl reignite, starling Greta. The witch hears Bonnie and Anastasia coming down the hillside, both chanting a different spell then what she had been.

Before Greta can react, Damon sneaks up behind her and snaps her neck before he kneels down and picks up Elena's body.

"Phasmatos Infero Eseri Gratas. Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Victamas veras. Phasmotos Tribum, Niha Sue Exilum. Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Levam, Mina Sue Te. Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Phasmatos Veras. Fes Matos Tribum, Mas Pro Tes Unum. Victas Ex Melam, Phasmatos Vanem. Mas Pro Je Ta Su Te." Anastasia and Bonnie keep the spell going.

"No! You were dead!" Klaus yells as he sees Bonnie still alive.

Both girls continue to chant, Klaus' body contorts into painful shapes as he screams. Meanwhile, Damon carries Elena's body towards Stefan and lays her down next to him.

Stefan gently grabs her arm, "Elena."

Damon kneels down and rips the remainder of the stake out of his brother's back as Stefan grunts in pain. Then, Damon grabs Stefan's shoulder, as if to help him up, but Stefan turns and looks at him, grabbing a hold of his jacket.

"I need you to get her out of here." Stefan tells him.

"What about you?"

"I'm not leaving until he's dead. Go!"

Damon picks Elena's body up and carries her away.

Stefan sits up as the two continue to chant, causing trees to fall.

Klaus screams in pain, lying against the rocks as Elijah approaches him and the two witches stop chanting, "Elijah?"

"Hello, brother."

Stefan gets up and walks behind Bonnie and his niece.

Elijah punches his arm into Klaus's chest, grabbing hold to his heart, "In the name of our family, Niklaus....," He twists his brother's heart.

"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus yells out, causing Anastasia to freeze.

"What?"

Klaus looks between Anastasia and his brother, "Their bodies are safe. If you kill me, neither of you will find them."

"Elijah! Eloise! Don't listen to him." Stefan says, grabbing his niece's forearm.

"Elijah, I can't take you to them." Klaus says, "I give you my word.....brother."

"Do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie says as Elijah hesitates on killing his brother.

"You'll die." Elijah tells her.

"I don't care."

Elijah looks down at Klaus before looking at the others, eyes trailing towards Anastasia before looking back at Bonnie, "I'm sorry."

Stefan and Bonnie rush forwards as Anastasia is glued to her spot, shock still running through her body, "No!"

Before either of them can get to them, Elijah flies off with Klaus.

彡☆

THE SALVATORE BROTHERS STOOD downstairs, dressed in funeral attire.

"We all set?" Stefan asked.

"Yeah. Plenty of room with the Gilbert family plot and I compelled two of the grave diggers to do the dirty work. How's she doing?" Damon asked.

"She lost the only parents she had. She's in shock." Stefan tells his brother, before glancing over at his niece who starred out the window, "Is she okay?"

Damon turns to look at his daughter, "I don't know. She hasn't talked in two days."

Anastasia stood at the window in the Gilbert house, arms crossed as she starred out of the window, her thoughts racing with multiple things. She could hear Jeremy and Elena upstairs as tears filled her eyes.

"Elena.....it's no easy task being an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. I failed in that task."

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STEFAN, ELENA, ANASTASIA, Damon, Bonnie, Caroline, Alaric and Jeremy walks across the graveyard.

"And because of my prejudice, I failed you. I'm haunted by how things might have played out differently. If I'd been more wiling to hear your side of things."

Stefan had his hand on the small of Elena's back as he leads her towards the graves that belonged to John and Jenna. Anastasia had her arms wrapped around her boyfriends waist.

Elena kneels down and places two roses on each grave.

"For me, it's the end. For you, a chance to grow old and someday do better with your own child than I did with mine. it's for that child that I give you my ring."

Teary-eyed, Elena approaches her parent's graves and puts the reaming two roses in her hands down.

"I don't ask for your forgiveness or for you to forget. I ask only that you believe this. Whether you are now reading this as a human or as a vampire, I love you all the same as I've always loved you, and always will. John."

Damon is standing a distance away from the group as Stefan and his daughter approaches him.

"We're going to head back to the house." Stefan tells him.

"I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes." Damon said.

"Damon, she needs us right now. All of us."

"And what's the plan, Stefan? The curse is broken." Damon stated, "How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf vampire and his two-faced older brother?"

"I have no idea."

"We need to get an idea. Fast." Damon says, turning to look at his brother.

"I'm not going to let Elena lose anybody else." Stefan said.

"I wouldn't make any promises, brother."

"What's that supposed to me?"

"Tyler Lockwood bit me." Damon pulls up the sleeve to his shirt to show Stefan the bite, which has gotten worse. "It's actually more of a nip, really, but there it is."

Stefan takes his brother's arm, examining the bite, "Well find something. A cure."

"There's no cure, Stefan." Damon tells him.

Damon and Stefan look off across the graveyard towards Elena and Anastasia.

"We kept Elena human, right?" Stefan turns back to his brother, "We found the way when there was no way. Hey. I will do this."

"You want to do something for me? Keep this from Anastasia until I can tell her myself. And keep it from Elena. Last thing she needs is another grave to mourn."

Damon grips Stefan's shoulder before he walks away.

Stefan watches him as he leaves, his left hand fidgeting.

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ANASTASIA WALKED DOWN THE stairs, towards the living room where her father and Uncle sat. The green eyes girl played with the ends of the t-shirt that belonged to Jeremy, "I, uh, I need to tell the two of your something important."