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Standing in the encircled fire barrier spell Elena couldn't but look towards her now vampire aunt who was in the same exact situation. There were all going to die in the ritual sacrifice but the only difference however was that she was the only one who would survive the outcome. There had to be something she could do to prevent this.

She began to pace back and forth and stopped once Klaus had begun to descend from a hill with Stefan trailing behind him.

"Well isn't this histrionic?" Klaus spoke as he looked at the two females and also taking a glance at the werewolf resting on the ground with her arms wrapped around her gut moaning in pain. His witch Greta Martin had previously cast a spell that slowed down the process of transforming into a wolf. Suffice to say, she was in incredible pain as her entire muscles and bones kept on shifting trying to break free. Smiling slightly the original spoke. "All the sentimental talks about preserving family and yet here is Stefan, willing to grant you your wish."

Elena gave the man he loved a pain filled gaze not knowing what to do.

"Well Elena?" Klaus said making the doppelganger shift her attention towards him. Waving a stick towards Stefan and Jenna. "Who is it going to be?"

Her heart began to pound at the offer she was being given. Either she chose her boyfriend to be executed or her aunt. Either way she would lose. "No." Elena said. She wouldn't play the psychopath's game.

"Perhaps a third option then?"

The four individuals shifted their gazes to a female that had entered the ritual ground. Laurel had decided to make her appearance and she wasn't alone. Elena gasped in shock at the person who stood unwillingly besides her whist she glared hatefully at the witch. Isobel.

But she was dead. Elena had seen her pull out her daylight ring in broad daylight and burned up to a crisp. Her eyes had to be deceiving. Stefan and Klaus also had the same expression of unbelief plastered on their faces.

Elena was surprised to see Klaus narrow his briefly after the witch gave him a significant look. A moment later he blurred behind Stefan with speed that he would never compete and shoved his stick through his back before snapping off the end of the piece he was holding. The younger Salvatore groaned in pain before Klaus snapped his neck

"Stefan!" Elena cried sharply as the original snapped his gaze over to his witch who stood at the alter observing the new witch with deep suspicion.

"Greta! Release Jenna!"

Jenna who had been silenced momentarily by the proceedings occurring before her looked sharply at Klaus.

"You. Witch!" Klaus spat staring at Laurel. "I've kept my end of the deal. I expect you to keep yours or be prepared to suffer the consequences."

What?! Elena's jaw dropped in shock at the girl as she gave Klaus a stiff nod. She had betrayed them. Stefan was right all along not to trust her. "How could you?!" She demanded as soon as Jenna walked out of the barrier only for her neck to be snapped by the original.

"Simple really." Laurel gave the doppelganger a scotching glare. "Katherine, John and Isobel tried to have me killed twice now. Consider it my revenge."

"b-but Isobel died! I saw her!" Elena said looking at her mother. She didn't know how to feel about her being alive. In her last moment with her she had apologised for everything she had done before bursting to flames. No child should get to watch their loved one die like that no matter the betrayal.

"Correction, I cast a spell to save her at the last minute. True I wanted you and everyone to think that she had died." Laurel replied making Klaus and Greta observe he carefully. "She sold you to be killed on an altar. I would have thought that you of all people would have appreciated the poetry of having her suffer the same fate."

Klaus chuckled in amusement at the rage plastered on the girl's face. Vengeful little thing wasn't she. The idea did seem poetic considering the fact that he had desired the same thing Katherine in the beginning, to die alongside Elena. Looking at Greta he spoke.

"I believe it is time."

After receiving a nod from the girl he gave a sparing glance at the dark look on Elena's face and rushed off towards the vampire that had tried to bargain Katherine's life in exchange for that of her daughter and stabbed her in the heart.

"No!" Elena gasped as tears dropped at seeing her mother's body desiccate as Klaus brought her to the ground gently.

…

He could feel the curse being uplifted from his body. He couldn't explain it but deep down he knew that the ritual had worked. "I can feel it, it's happening." He was ecstatic. Everything had gone according to his plan, well not entirely everything. He didn't anticipate Elena un daggering his brother and Bonnie Bennett being alive. He owed it to the witch Laurel that had given him the insight when she had shown up to bargain.

He had wanted to kill her there and then but stayed his hand when she spoke to him in his mind.

"Elijah and Bonnie are prepped up and ready to kill you after the sacrifice. You and I both know that you can't postpone the ritual since the spell to unlock the curse has already been cast on the moonstone. Now I can help you survive this at a price, Jenna's live for Isobel's."

Klaus didn't know what to make of this. How was he to know that the girl wasn't spouting of lies? She must have read the scepticism on his face because a moment later she projected a mental image of Elijah speaking his strategy to Stefan of when to strike and respond to the Salvatore's question of why he wanted to kill his brother.

"Well Klaus isn't my only brother Stefan." Elijah responded. "I had siblings and my brother hunted them down one by one over the centuries and cast their bodies deep into the ocean were I can never find them."

Where he hunted them down?! Klaus had been furious at the hypocrisy of his brother. Didn't they do this together for their own safety. Well of course noble Elijah didn't dagger them but he held them while he did it but that's not the point! How could he believe his lie when he told them that he had thrown them away into the deep? He loved his family as much as he did. The betrayal stung him, but in that moment he accepted the witch's help.

He could have further interrogated her but he had run out of time and she knew it. She lied in wait for the spell to be cast before she could appear which was clever on her part.

Klaus gave a guttural scream of pain as he felt a spell in the air twist his organs as he was flung away from his standing position and land painfully. A moment later he felt the spell undo itself. Shifting his head slowly towards Laurel, he noticed her looking at her in deep concentration.

She was keeping her word.

A new voice could be head chanting from behind the little hill he had descended from with Stefan and sure enough, Bonnie came into view at the top with a storm approaching at her command.

Greta tried to stop her only to have her neck snapped by Damon who had blurred out of nowhere.

"Laurel?" There was surprise in his tone.

"I'm trying to keep Klaus from escaping Salvatore, I need to concentrate."

It was a lie of course. Klaus realised.

Bonnie began to descend with her palm pointed at his general direction and he felt a wave of power try to penetrate the protection Laurel had placed upon him. The witch in question gasped deeply unprepared at Bonnie's fiery assault. A few drops of blood began to flow down her nose.

"You've done enough Laurel. Bonnie can take care of the rest." Damon said unaware of the pact that had been formed by the two.

She then gasped loudly and Klaus screamed in agony as the shield protecting him completely vanished but something strange happened. In his pain filled state, he began to see glimpses of memories that certainly weren't his.

A girl whom he could recognise anywhere and her little child. Another face he recognised was Ayanna and it seemed as though Cassia and the little girl he named Holly had lived together.

"When will I get to see daddy?" the girl who couldn't be older than 6 at the time asked her mother.

"Soon my little princess." Cassia promised eliciting a smile from the girl.

His smile. Could it be his child? It was impossible? Trying by all means to ignore the pain Klaus proceeded to look.

"His name is Klaus, he is very handsome, loving and very loyal."

Tears dropped from his eyes as he continued to scream. But it wasn't the fear of his approaching death that he feared, no. It was the fear of dying without getting to know her. Other memories rushed through but the one that made him shock the most prevalent was of Holly all grown up and dressed in modern clothing making a proposal to the Wendell family. He saw her cast the spell to possess their daughter as a way to save her.

His own daughter was standing a few steps away from him trying to save him and he didn't even know it?!

The spell came to an abrupt stop and all of a sudden Elijah stood towering over him with a deep sneer as he gazed darkly upon him.

"Hello brother."

He wasn't given a chance to give back a response by Elijah who then proceeded to plunge his hand through his chest and gave his beating heart a hard squeeze enough to make him gasp for air.

"In the name of our family Niklaus…"

"I didn't bury them at sea!" Klaus rasped loudly his eyes widening in fear making Elijah hesitate from killing him. "But their bodies are safe."

"No! Elijah don't listen to him." Stefan who had the stick pulled out of his back implored.

"I will take you to them." Klaus saw the indecision plastered on his brother's face not knowing what to believe. "I give you my word brother."

"Kill him or I will take you out both." Bonnie spoke coldly staring at Elijah.

"I'm afraid you won't get the chance Bonnie."

Klaus gasped again in shock at Cassia who had decided to show up. The Salvatore's and Bonnie turned to face the vampire that stood a few feet away behind them.

"Your brother has given you all the proof you need Elijah, if you kill him now, you lose your family forever." Cassia ignored everyone else as she stared directly at Elijah.

Bonnie began to raise her palm but Cassia quickly waved her palm to the left and sent the Bennett witch flying further away as possible from the ritual sight and land sharply to the ground with a painful moan. Damon and Stefan blurred towards her but she fought them with laughable ease before quickly snapping their necks.

"I wouldn't if I were you Jenna. You are way too young and inexperienced to match me unless you want to join the Salvatore's in their sleep and wake up with a very painful headache." Cassia said raising her brow at the new vampire when she noticed dark veins appearing beneath her eyelids.

Elijah removed his hand from Klaus's chest only to blur away with him when he noticed the beginnings of his transformation.

Cassia blurred towards Laurel who was kneeling dawn with her hand on her forehead before grabbing her and vanishing from sight.