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"THE SACRIFICE IS COMPLETED IN STAGES
as the full moon sets." Elijah explained as he, Alaric, Stefan, and Skyler stood outside the old witch house, "First, the werewolf is killed, then the vampire. Finally, the doppelganger. 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." Elijah explained his plan further.
"And you're sure Bonnie will survive this?" Stefan questioned worriedly.
"If she can deliver him to the brink of death, I'll finish the job myself." Elijah promised, just then Stefan's phone began to ring, he answers it as he walked away from Elijah and Alaric.
"Skyler," Elijah called as the woman watched her brother, she turns to look at him, "Come with me for a moment, if you will."
Alaric gave Skyler a strange look as she nodded, following Elijah out of hearing distance from where Stefan stood.
"Can I trust you to not tell my brother of our plan?" Elijah asked her lowly.
"If I tell him, my brothers die, Elijah." Skyler said in a soft yet stern voice, "So yes, you can trust me. But if it ever comes between Elena and them... I don't care what they say, I'll save my brothers."
Elijah nodded, "And will you tell Kol of our plan?"
"There's nothing I keep from him, Elijah, you know that."
"Well, then it's time to start." Elijah said sternly, "Kol will ruin our plans if he knows of them."
"Kol will stand by his wife's side, my side." Skyler protested sternly, a fire blazing in her eyes.
Elijah nodded in defeat as Skyler walked away, returning to stand beside Alaric just as Stefan looked over at them.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Skyler asked confused and worried as her brows furrowed.
"He's going to use her as the vampire in the ritual." Skyler heard Damon say on the phone which only confused Skyler more, "Who?" She asked.
"Oh my god."
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"Why did he take Jenna?" Bonnie questioned as she stood outside with Elijah and the twins.
"A punishment for meddling." Elijah explained.
"Klaus was going to use Tyler and Caroline. But Damon rescued them." Stefan told her.
"Then we need to go." Bonnie said, "Now. Before Jenna's been sacrificed. I can kill Klaus myself."
"Bonnie... if you use that much power, you'll be dead. We've already been through this. It's not an option." Stefan told her sternly.
"Neither is letting Jena die."
"Well, Stefan would agree with you." Elijah said knowingly.
Bonnie and Skyler looked confused and Stefan walked closer to Bonnie before he said, "We're going to offer another vampire. One that he'll want more. Me."
Skyler's heart sank as she stared at her twin brother, willing to die for the woman that looked so much like the person who killed them all those years ago.
"No." She whispered.
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"Bonnie did the locator spell." Elijah told Stefan as he walked up with Skyler who had gone silent after what Stefan had said earlier and had yet to speak, only following her brother-in-law around mutely as she tried to find a way around her twin's death by her best friend's hand. "They're at Steven's Quarry."
"I'll head over there first and then you two can follow with Bonnie when it's time." Stefan said to Elijah as Skyler looked to the floor.
Skyler's head flew up as she stared at him, "No." She shook her head, "If you're going to do this, I'm going with you." She told him stepping up to him, "I'm not letting you do this alone." And if she had to... she would face her brother's hatred and reveal herself to be a Mikaelson to save him. She wouldn't let him die. She just wouldn't.
Stefan looked like he was going to protest when Elijah interrupted, "I'll bring Bonnie just as the moon hits its final phase. She's to stay hidden until then. He cannot know that she's alive."
Stefan nodded and began to walk away when Elijah called after him, "You're very honorable."
Stefan turned back, looking at Elijah, and walked back towards him, "Are you?" He questioned, "Because this whole plan is um, it's contingent upon your honor, Elijah."
"I won't fail you." Elijah promised.
"Klaus is your brother. I know I've wanted to kill my brother a thousand times. I've never been able to." Stefan pointed out.
"Well, Klaus was not my only brother. I had siblings; parents. I had a family." Elijah said, "Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down one by one and he took them from me. He scattered them across the seas where their bodies would not be found." Elijah couldn't help but glance at Skyler as he said, "There is only one that he has not killed and it is only for the benefit of himself that he's kept my youngest brother alive today."
"You want revenge."
"Sometimes, there's honor in revenge, Stefan. I won't fail you." Elijah told Skyler's brother as Skyler watched him closely, studying him.
"Please end this." Stefan said before he left, Skyler stole a glance at Elijah one last time before she followed after her brother.
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Stefan and Skyler stand on the top of the quarry listening to what was going on below them when Klaus suddenly looked up at them, tilting his head curiously.
"I don't recall the wonder twins being on the guest list."
Jenna and Elena looked up to the top of the quarry as well, Elena letting out a gasp as Stefan and Skyler stood atop the cliff.
"I'm here to talk." Stefan told Klaus.
"Very well then." Klaus said, looking over at Jenna briefly before he vamp-speeds up to where the twins were, he walked calmly over to them and asked, "What can I do for you, Mr. Salvatore?"
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"You're quite the hero aren't you? I've heard that about you," Klaus said to Stefan with a smirk on his face.
"Just make the trade. Me for Jenna." Stefan told the man.
"No." Skyler protested stepping in front of her brother, "I'm not letting you do this." She told Stefan before looking at Klaus, "Take me. Take me but do not kill Stefan."
"No." Klaus snarled, he would not have her blood on his hands, "If Stefan wants to offer himself, then I will accept the trade. But it has to be Stefan who takes her place."
"I'm not letting you do this Nik-" Klaus jumped in, snapping her neck before she could so much as finish her sentence, she fell to the ground limply, her eyes snapping shut.
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"It's time." Klaus said as Skyler woke up alone on the cliff, her eyes opening as her neck ached.
She groaned, cursing Klaus as she stood, catching sight of the sacrifice below she runs down however when she tried getting to Stefan, she was stopped, forced into her own separate circle of fire with a mere glance from the witch.
Stefan struggles to stand however he ended up falling to the floor, Elena looked at Klaus as he stretched out his hand to her. Elena got up from the ground and walked past, ignoring him. She made her way to the altar and looked down at Jenna's body sadly, Skyler followed her gaze, shocked to see her dead. Klaus followed Elena up to the altar and grabbed Elena's face in his hands as below them Stefan continues to struggle off the ground. Klaus turned Elena to look at him.
"Thank you, Elena."
"Go to hell."
Stefan keeps struggling to stand however he fell again, too weak to move. Elena stared out blankly as Klaus sinks his fangs into her neck, draining her of her blood as Stefan and Skyler watched on helpless.
Klaus held Elena up tightly as the twins watched on, a moment later Klaus released her and they watched as she falls to the ground, dead. Blood dripped from Klaus's mouth as the flame in the bowl extinguishes while Elena's body lie lifeless, Stefan looked at her sadly and lowered his head.
Skyler watched silently as Klaus walked down the steps. "I can feel it, it's happening." He looked up as the full moon rises above them and his transition began, "Yes, yes!"
Suddenly, Klaus is thrown through the air. The flames in the bowl reignite, startling the witch. The witch heard, seeing Bonnie coming down the hillside, chanting a spell. Before Greta could react, Damon snuck up behind her and snapped her neck. Damon kneels down and picked up Elena's body.
"No! You were dead!" Klaus screamed as Bonnie chanted the spell.
Damon carried Elena's body over to where Stefan is on the ground, lying her down next to him. Stefan grabbed her arm as Skyler exited the circle that was once lit on fire, going to her brother's side.
"Elena." Stefan called.
Damon kneels down and ripped the remainder of the stake out of Stefan's back causing Stefan to grunts in pain. Damon grabbed Stefan's shoulder, as if to help him up, however, Stefan turned and looks up at him, grabbing a hold of his jacket.
"I need you to get her out of here!" Stefan told him, glancing at Skyler, he added, "Both of you."
"What about you?" Damon asked.
"I'm not leaving you here." Skyler told him, shaking her head.
"I'm not leaving until he's dead. Go!" Stefan said sternly.
Damon picked up Elena's body, glancing at Skyler who shook her head, indicating that she was not going to leave without Stefan. Damon nodded, carrying Elena away as Stefan sat up with Skyler's help. Bonnie continued to chant the spell which is so powerful it causes trees to fall. Klaus screamed in pain, lying against the rocks when Elijah approaches him causing Bonnie to stop chanting.
"Elijah?" Klaus asked confused and disorientated.
"Hello, brother."
Stefan stood up, and the twins walk up behind Bonnie watching as Elijah punched his arm into Klaus's chest, grabbing a hold of his heart.
"In the name of our family, Niklaus..." Elijah said as he twisted his heart in his hands.
"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus interrupted in a panic.
Elijah paused, "What?"
"Their bodies are safe. If you kill me, you'll never find them." Klaus told him.
"Elijah! Don't listen to him." Stefan called out almost pleadingly.
"Elijah, I can take you to them. I give you my word... brother." Klaus said causing Elijah to have second thoughts about his plan.
"Do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie threatened from in front of the twins.
"You'll die." Skyler pointed out.
"I don't care." Bonnie said through gritted teeth.
Elijah looked down at Klaus, before he looked back up at Bonnie, Stefan and Skyler. Before he even did anything, Skyler knew that he was not going to kill Klaus. Not today.
"NO!" Bonnie and Stefan screamed in protest however before anyone can get to them, Elijah ran with Klaus.
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Days later, a large group gathered to bury Elena's aunt Jenna, and Skyler stood in the back of this crowd watching on blankly, her head filled with a million thoughts but she couldn't focus on any of them. Just then, Damon walked over to Skyler followed by Stefan.
"We're going to head back to the house." He told them.
"I think I'll skip the coffee and tea cakes." Damon said sarcastically, Skyler nodding her agreement.
"Damon, she needs us right now. All of us." Stefan told him sternly.
"And then what's the plan, Stefan? The curse is broken. How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf vamp and his two-faced older brother?" Damon questioned.
"Elena doesn't know me, let alone need me." Skyler told them, stepping up, "Don't wait up for me."
Stefan and Damon watched as Skyler rushed to take her leave, they could both tell she was too lost in her thoughts to process things and they all knew what she was thinking of. Their funerals. The ones they were forced to watch all those years ago as their father pretended to grieve his children, not letting anyone know he was the one to kill them.
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Kol sat on the couch, twisting his wedding ring around his finger as he worried over Skyler when there was a knock at the front door. He ran to it, opening it only to find his wife stood there, with a blank expression as she merely blinked up at him.
"Oh, darling..." He whispered as he brought her into his arms, not needing any sort of explanation. Not right now anyway.
All he needed to know at that moment was that she was hurting and needed him. The rest he could figure out later.
He held onto her, sweeping her off her own feet before he carried her bridal style up to their bedroom where he laid her down. Kol put a blanket over her before he went downstairs, boiling a cup of tea for her before rushing back upstairs, he didn't want to leave her alone. Not again.
Has Kol mentioned he hated this plan?
Kol settled the teacup down on the nightstand as he climbed into bed with his wife, adjusting her so she could lay in between his legs, her head on his chest as he wrapped his arms around her.
Yeah, Kol still hated this plan. He wanted to never leave her alone again.
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