Elena's eyes began to open slowly, as she looked around and noticed that she was in a hospital room with a huge headache.

Meredith and Jeremy were outside of Elena's hospital room, discussing the well-being of the doppelganger.

"She's going to be fine." Meredith assured him. "She got a little banged up today, hit her head, but it was just a slight concussion, nothing to worry about."

"But she collapsed, there was blood." Jeremy protested.

"Honestly, Jeremy, she's ok. She's just... she's been through a lot." Meredith told him. "Is there anyone you want to call?"

"You did what?" Stefan questioned in desbelief. He, Damon and Claire were driving on their way so they could get rid of Klaus's body.

"I took her to the hospital. When you find your sister unconscious, you call 911." Jeremy informed them.

"Not when you have a parade of vampires at your disposal!" Damon scoffed.

"Every remaining Original is going to want Elena dead to stop Alaric. She's a sitting duck in there." Stefan added.

"Well, Meredith wants to keep her here for observation." Jeremy replied.

"Jeremy, get Elena home, we're on our way." Stefan told him as he hung up. "You and Claire need to keep moving, if Klaus really is the sire of our bloodline, we need to keep his body hidden before Alaric finds him, kills him, and we all end up dead."

"Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss." Damon smirked, then he turned to the back of the car to see Claire staring out of the window, she hadn't said one word all the ride.

"You've been quiet, are you still sulking about Klaus?" He questioned bitterly. She turned to look at him and narrowed her eyes. After being tortured and almost killed by Alaric, she realized how much of a threat he really is. She had been thinking all night what she could do to stop Alaric, he was pratically invicible so killing him definitelty not an option since he was 10 times stronger than her. But she couldn't believe that the Salvatores wanted to hide Klaus's body and hope for the best because it was obvious that the vampire hunter would turn Mystic Falls down and hunt down the hybrid's body and then Damon, Stefan, Caroline and even Tyler and Abby would be all dead and she couldn't let that happen.

"I'm not in the mood, Damon." She huffed, she didn't have the time to deal with Damon's sarcastics comments, too much was going on and all of their lives depended on Klaus.

"What are you plotting?" He looked at her. And she actually froze, she was not expecting for Damon to be in her case right now, but she would had seen it coming, he was smart and he knew her too well.

"What makes you think that I'm plotting something?" She scoffed. "Or maybe I am, maybe I'm trying to find a way to bring Klaus back to life so we can ride into the sunset together." She added sarcastically.

He rolled his eyes, leave it to Claire to go from brooding to a sarcastic moody bitch, "Whatever you're trying to do, don't even think about it. Don't screw this."

She seriously wanted to outsmart him right now, but she couldn't afford him figuring out her plan, so she had to play along.

"Whatever you say Damon."

Meredith walked into her office with filles in her hands, as she suddenly stopped when she saw Alaric sittinf casually at her desk, and she gulped down nervously. He was supposed to be dead.

"Hello, Meredith." He smirked.

"What are you doing here?" She questioned.

"I'm Elena's guardian." Alaric reminded her. "I thought it was strange I didn't get a phone call."

"How did you find out?" Meredith hissed.

"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 mused. "Speaking of, you are a little too good at your job." He got up from the chair and walked over to the mini-fridge and pulled out vials of vampire blood. "But that's because you cheat." He purred. "So, I found your stash of vampire blood." He opened the vial and began to pour down the liquid.

"No, stop it!" Meredith cried, even though she didn't move to stop him. "No, don't do that, stop it!"

"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 walked over to her and grabbed Elena's filles from her hands. "And you will be releasing Elena to my custody."

He signed the papers and walked out of the office leaving a distraught Meredith behind. He searched for Elena's room and stopped when he saw her bed empty.

Tyler and Matt walked into the Gilbert House, along with Caroline who was helping Elena.

"Couch." Caroline ordered.

"I'm fine. I just I want something to eat first." Elena replied.

"We're on it, as soon as we make sure no one is lurking in the closets." Tyler told her as he and Matt walked upstairs and Caroline led Elena to the couch.

"Alright, couch, now!" Caroline told her firmly.

"Uhh, I told you I'm fine." Elena sighed. The blonde grabbed a blanket and followed her friend to the couch.

"Doctor says rest, you rest." She replied as Elena sat on the couch and Caroline covered her with the blanket. "Now, what can I get you? Do you want some tea, maybe some vodka? Both will help you sleep." She suggested. The doppelganger just shot her a look and the blonde sighed and sat down on the couch with her. "I know, I'm being smothering. It's what I do."

"No, it's it's nice." Elena smiled at her.

"I'm thinking, maybe tea with vodka." They both laughed as she got up to prepare her tea. Elena looked over at a picture on the end table with her parents, when her life was supernatural drama-free.

[Flashback- 2 years ago]

Elena and Matt were walking outside of the school, holding hands along with Bonnie. The two girls were dressed in their cheerleading uniforms and Matt dressed in his jersey.

"Caroline Forbes just told me my ponytail lacked 'juzz'." Elena told them both.

"I don't even know what that means." Matt chuckled.

"It's Caroline striking Elena crazy, as usual." Bonnie grinned. "Like a phsically predicted flair jeans are making a come back."

"That doesn't make you a psychic Bonnie, that means that you watch to much Top Model." Elena chuckled.

"Say what you want. But I have a bad feeling about the bonfire." Bonnie told her seriously.

"Your secret is safe with me." Elena replied placing her arm around her best friends neck. "And Matt of course."

"It doesn't matter. Because I can't go." Elena bit her lip, as Matt looked over at her a little disappointed. "I know but Jenna is in town, and my parents want to do family night."

"You have to go, see if you can sneak out." Matt smiled at her. And then he kissed her lips softly. "I have to go see Coach Tanner." He caressed her cheek. "Love you." He replied as he walked away.

"You didn't say it back." Bonnie shot her a look.

"What?" Elena frowned.

"You know what." Bonnie countered. "You can't string him along, Elena. If you're not into him anymore, just tell him."

[End Of Flashback]

Elena woke up to see Matt standing in front of her, she glanced around the room and didn't saw Caroline or Tyler.

"Where is everyone?" Her voice was a little groggy and she sta upright on the couch.

"Tyler and Caroline got a call from their moms." He answered her. "What were you dreaming about?"

"Sophomore year." Elena told him.

"Seems like forever ago." Matt mused.

"It was." Elena nodded. "I'm sorry that I strung you along. I should have figured out what I wanted and just been honest about it-" Before she could finish what she was saying, the front door shot open and Stefan walked towards the living-room.

"Stefan." She smiled as she got up and ran over to him wrapping her hands around his neck as he rubbed her back.

Jeremy was at the Grill to grab some food for his sister, one of the staff walked out and handed him a paper bag.

"Thanks man, tell the kitchen I appreciate them staying open for me." Jeremy smiled at him, he turned to see Alaric sittin next to him with two bottles of beer.

"We need to talk." He told him.

While Stefan and Matt were cooking some dinner, Elena was lying on the couch with the blanket over her legs.

"I'm being over coddled." Elena sighed.

"You're on house arrest." Stefan told her jokingly. "You're supposed to be coddled."

"Wouldn't it be smarter if we just got you the hell out-of-town?" Matt questioned.

"And do what?" Elena held up her hands. "Go on the run for the rest of my life? No thank you." She got up from the couch and grabbed her blanket. "And I'm not an invalid. I'm done with the couch." She walked out of the room.

"So, you're just gonna let her call the shots?" Matt looked over at the vampire.

"I'm letting her make her own decisions." Stefan shrugged.

"Even if they're wrong?" Matt creased his eyebrows.

"Nothing wrong with free will, Matt." Stefan told him as he placed the knife on the table. "Trust me, you don't realise that until you lose it."

"Stefan." Elena called him, the two males turned to look at the front door, shocked to see Elijah standing in front of Elena.

"Elijah." Stefan hissed, even though Elijah considered himself a noble man, he had sone so many things to hurt them, except for Claire. Because, clearly she was the only one who he really cared about.

"Hello again." The Original spoke.

"I need you to tell me where they're keeping Klaus's body." Alaric told him firmly.

"I don't know and even if I did, why would I tell you?" Jeremy scoffed, he was not the same Alaric, so why should he trust him?

Elena's association with vampires nearly got her killed again tonight, Jeremy. Does that even register with you?" He stared him down.

"Of course it does." Jeremy retorted.

"Well, she can't seem to cut them out of her life, but I can." He replied firmly. "And with your help, I'll get rid of all of them. Find out where Klaus's 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." The teenage boy's voice was hesitant.

"Then lock me up." Alaric suggested. "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 white oak stake and placed it in front of him. "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."

Stefan, Elena, Matt and Elijah were sitting at the dinner table while Elena had put Damon and Claire on the speaker phone so they could hear the conversation.

"All we need is to take the stake away from him." Elijah told them. "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 titled his head to the side as he took a seat next to Elena.

"We've done it before." Elijah shrugged. "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 sighed as she shook her head. "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 promised her. "Perhaps that will finally teach him some manners."

"Why should she trust you?" Matt spoke up. "All you've done is screw her over."

"And for that, I am deeply ashamed." The Original lowered his head a little. "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 scoffed loudly. "Hello, did that concussion give you brain damage?! His lunatic siblings will kill you the first chance they get!"

"Elijah, I have no doubt that Elena can trust you. But we all know that she can't trust your sibilings, I'll have to back Damon on this one, they will kill her if their given the chance." Claire added.

"Rebekah and Kol will honour the terms." Elijah assured them as he looked at the two humans and vampire. "If you return Klaus's body to us, Elena will come to no harm." He paused. "Do we have a deal?"

"No!" Damon blurted out. "No, no, no, no. Did I mention: No!"

"Damon, let her decide. It's her decision." Claire huffed.

"Elena, it's up to you." Stefan glanced over at her. "Do what you think is best."

"Why do you want Klaus' body?" Elena questioned.

"He's my brother." Elijah answered. "We remain together."

Elena paused for a moment, she wasn't sure if she could trust Elijah, he may be the 'honourable' but he was still an Original in the end of the day, she looked up at him and nodded "We have a deal."

Matt and Jeremy were sitting in the Gilbert porch as Jeremy explained the busboy what happened at the Grill when he ran into Alaric.

"So, what are you going to do?" Matt questioned.

"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 sighed heavily.

"So why don't we?" Matt looked at him.

"Good luck getting her past all the vampires in there." Jeremy huffed. "Even if I wanted to help Alaric, I have no idea where Klaus's body is."

"I do." Matt answered.

Alaric was nursing a glass of whiskey at the Grill, when his phone began to vibrate he picked it up and saw the ID, and answered.

"Yes?" He held it up to his ear.

"I know where Klaus's body is." Jeremy announced in a quiet tone.

"Good. Tell me." Alaric ordered in a firm tone.

"Damon and Claire are on their way to bury him in the woods off Route 12. I'll text you with the specifics." Jeremy told him.

"Thank you, Jeremy. You're doing the right thing for your sister." Alaric nodded.

"I know." He replied as he looked over at Elena, Matt, Stefan and Elijah, then he hung up the phone. "He brought it."

Tyler and Caroline were in the study of the hybrid's mansion, as the blonde paced the room nervously.

"We can't jut leave town." Caroline shook her head.

"Yes, we can." Tyler nodded.

"But our friends need us." Caroline argued, she couldn't let her family behind. They had to remain together through bad and good times.

"And our mothers need us to stay alive." Tyler countered as he walked over to her. "Look, Stefan and Damon will whatever it takes to protect Elena and Claire and, to protect themselves, but this is our lives. So let me protect you."

"I'll go anywhere with you." Caroline nodded her head. "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."

"I'll get our stuff together and meet you at the cellar in two hours." Tyler replied.

"Deal!" She smiled as she pressed her lips against his.

"We've got to travel light, so what do you need?" He questioned.

"Just you." She replied, she contemplated for a while. "Maybe a curling iron." She chuckled as she kissed him again. "Oh, I have to tell Bonnie and Claire!"

"I'll call Bonnie, ok?" Tyler told her. "Two hours, don't you dare be late." She nodded and they kissed one more time before the blonde ran out of the room.

Damon and Claire got out of the car when they arrived outside of the storage where they would be hiding Klaus's body. She was wearing a Suri lace singlet, high waisted black jeans, black platform ankle wedge boots and black leather jacket. Her hair was wavy and she wore dark pink lipstick (Outfit in the profile).

"Just because you trust Elijah, doesn't mean that Elena should be doing the same thing!" He argued. They had been on and on about Elena making a deal with the Original.

"I don't know what you want me to say, I didn't tell Elena to trust him, I just told her that it was her decision." Claire sighed tired of this conversation. She began to walk towards the entrance but he grabbed her forearm.

"What?" She growled. "In case you haven't noticed, we don't have exactly time for one of 'Claire and Damon's episode of who is right and who is wrong', we have an invicible hunter trying to kill us, let's just get this over with!"

"I just don't want anything to happen to you." He replied quietly.

"Why would anything happen to me?" She frowned.

"Well, he knows for a fact that Elijah was the one who created your bloodline, and he is in Mystic Falls and if he kills him-"

"Hey, hey." Claire grabbed his face. "Nothing is going to happen to me or to any of you for that matter."

"But he will try to kill you, so you can't stay here. After we dump Klaus's body you have to go back to Mystic Falls." He told her firmly.

"And leave you here? Are you crazy, what if he tries to kill you? And I'm not here to protect you? Damon, he's way stronger than me and you combined together so now is not the time for arguing-"

"Claire! I'm trying to keep you alive!"

"And so am I!" She roared. "I lost a lot of people in my life, I can't afford losing you too." Even though are way complicated between them and her unresolved feelings for Klaus, she still loved the dark-haired vampire no matter what happened.

"I will be fine, I'll leave as soon as possible. I promise." He put his hands on the back of her neck. She didn't want to leave him, she had a feeling in her gut that telling her that something tragic will happen, but then again she needed to get back to Mystic Falls so she could do what she had agreed with Bonnie.

"Ok, I'll go back. But if you don't come right back, I will come back to get you." She looked straight into his icy blue eyes.

"No, you won't-"

"You do know that you can't win an argument when it concerns me doing what I want right?" She cocked an eyebrow.

"Fine! Damn you and your stubborness!" He huffed as he ran a hand through his hair. She just shrugged and began to walk towards the entrance and this time he followed her. She pulled out her phone and began to type a text.

Divide and conquer -Claire.

Damon, Claire and Bonnie exit the elavator as they walked towards a room of a storage units.

"You know, I'm not half way out of Virginia and Elena sells our souls to the Originals?" Damon scoffed. Claire just rolled her eyes, he wouldn't be shuting up anytime soon about that.

"It was her call." Bonnie told him.

"You know what else is her call? Everything bad ever." Damon huffed.

"Where's the body? As long as it's unspelled, Alaric is two witches away from finding it." Bonnie informed them.

"Hidden. I was going to use Unit 666, but figured that would be a little obvious. So " Damon trailed off as they stopped in front of a storage unit. "1020. Mini fridge, a couple bird cages, a box of old Playboys." As he opened the unit. "One beef jerkified Original." The three of them walked over to the coffin and Claire opened the lid to reveal Klaus's body inside, all of the sudden he opened his eyes.

"Oh, creepy." Damon muttured.

"I need a minute." Bonnie announced as she didn't take her eyes off of Klaus.

"Me too." Claire spoke.

"Just jam the witch locator, bat signal or whatever and get on with it, you guys." Damon sighed in frustation.

"Elena and Jeremy lost Jenna and Alaric because of him. Tyler's a hybrid, my mother's a vampire. Could you give me a minute to just appreciate the sight of him like this?" Bonnie questioned, the male vampire just held up his hands in surrender then he turned to look at Claire.

"We have a deal, vitch." Damon trailed off, she hated when he called her that. She turned to look at him with her arms crossed over her arms.

"I will if you will." She told him. He nodded and walked over to her to kiss her on the forehead.

"Please, stay out of trouble." He looked at her.

"Ditto, Salvatore." She smirked. He gave her one last look and walked out of the storage. Then Claire let out a breath, as she could see her mother turning in her grave for what she was about to do, the hybrid turned to Bonnie who was staring down at Klaus's body.

"You should burn in hell. But if you die, so do my friends. So does my mother." She paused. "What am I supposed to do about that?"

Damon quickly pulled out his phone and began to dial a number, he knew Claire too well. She was way stubborn to give up like that, they were so much alike and they would everything to protect the people that they care about, so knowing that they both knew that neither of them were going to honour the deal.

"Hello?"

"Stefan. I need a favour." Damon announced.

"What's wrong? Is everything alright?" He could almost see his brother's forehead full of wrinkles through the phone.

"Not quite. Alaric is certainly on his way to kill Klaus's body and Claire and Bonnie are going back to Mystic Falls. I need you to keep her there at all costs."

"What do you mean keep her here? You know that I can't force her to do something that she doesn't want-"

"Stefan! She can't be here, lie, kill, steal... Do whatever you need to keep her there, I don't want her to put herself in danger and make sure that she doesn't do anything that may kill her!"

"You know that is impossible right? She is like you, she doesn't take orders from anyone, how am I supposed to keep her here?"

"I'm asking you to protect her, like you would protect Elena. You owe me! All of the times that I protected Elena when you couldn't do it, because I knew that would destroy you if something happened to her, so I'm asking you brother protect Claire because if something happens to her it will destroy me and if you care enough about me you'll do it."

Stefan sighed loudly as he contemplated his brother's words, everything he had said was true. When he was in his ripper phase he had protected Elena and he would always be grateful for that, so he had to do the same thing for him, he had to protect Claire for his brother.

"Ok, I'll do it." Stefan told him.

"Promise, Stefan." Damon pressed, he needed his brother's word to know if he didn't need to be worried about Claire's wellbeing.

"I promise."

Stefan and Elena were in Elena's room discussing the fact that Jeremy needed to stay far away from Alaric.

"Stefan, make sure Alaric doesn't lay a hand on Jeremy." She told him.

"Jeremy will be fine." He assured her. "Between all of us, we'll have the strength in numbers to disarm Alaric and I have to keep an eye on Claire too, Damon is worried that Alaric will come after her after he finds Klaus." He added and she looked at him a worried expression and he caressed her face. "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 replied quietly.

"Well, I promise I will do everything in my power to make sure that we all come back." He replied softly, he was about to walk out of the door and thn he stopped, he walked back around to Elena and pressed his lips against hers passionately.

Damon was sitting on a couch in the storage unit as he spoke on the phone with Stefan.

"Bonnie and Claire just left. Rebekah should be here soon to pick up the body." Damon informed him.

"I've got Caroline and Elijah in place. Jeremy is going to lead Alaric to us." Stefan told him. "I'm going to check on Claire right now."

"Good. Make sure she doesn't find out that you're checking on her."

"Damon you do know that this is going to blow up in your face. She's very smart, once she finds out that you sent me to spy on her and to keep her from doing what she wants, you're keeping her from making her own decisions."

"I don't care Stefan. Claire doesn't get to always call the shots if it means that her life is danger, I will do what I need to do, to make sure that she stays alive." Damon shrugged.

"You know she'd just hate you for it, right?" Stefan sighed.

"Yeah, but she'd be alive and she'd hate me. Thus, the eternal difference between you and me, brother."

"As soon as we get the stake, hand over the coffin and get out. Alaric's got half the police looking for Klaus's car."

"Will do" Damon replied as he heard the bell of the elevator. "Gotta go, the Original sister is here." He hung up the phone and walked out of the storage unit.

"It's about time, sexy Beks." Damon smirked, then suddenly Alaric came from behind him and grabbed Damon in a chokehold.

"Where is Klaus?" Alaric demanded as he choked him.

"How did you find me?" Damon rasped.

"Oh, you'd be amazed at how competent law enforcement is when it's not corrupted by vampires. Now, where is Klaus?" Alaric growled.

"In a storage locker. There's only about a thousand of them, have at it." Damon told him as Alaric threw him on the floor completely passed out.

Elena opened her eyes slowly, she blinked a few times to notice that she was in the passenger seat of Matt's truck and they were driving away from Mystic Falls.

"What's going on?" Her voice was a little groggy from the sleep as she looked over at Matt.

"It's the only way I was going to get you in this truck." Matt told her.

"The tea." She whispered. "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 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 demanded.

"I'm getting you out of town, Elena. It's the only way to keep you safe." He answered.

Bonnie and Claire walked down to the Lockwood cellar, as the younger witch had her grimoire. The female hybrid turned to Bonnie and made her stop.

"Are you sure, you're up for this?" She questioned. "You do realize that this will require for you to use dark magic right?"

"I know what I'm getting myself into, don't worry." She nodded confidently.

"Bonnie, I can do this alone. You don't have to suffer the same consequences as me." Claire looked into her forest green eyes.

"What kind of friend would I be if I do that?" Bonnie questioned. "You've done nothing but help me with my magic, you're a great mentor Claire. But now is time for me to guidance mysellf."

"Proud of you. You're not letting the dead witches control you anymore." She nodded. The two witches smiled at each other, but then Claire's phone began to rang, she checked the ID and huffed in annoyance.

"It's Stefan. Go ahead, I need to take this." Claire told her and she nodded, walking down to the cellar.

"Stefan. What's up?"

"Hey, just wondering where are you..."

"Why?"

"Because, I'm worried about you. I'm here with Elijah, Caroline and Jeremy in case Alaric tries anything-"

"Stefan, one of the things that I most admire in you is that you're capable of letting people make their own decisions even when it may not be the best... So, it would really suck if you'd started to act like your brother." She felt guilty for saying this, but it needed to be done. It was the only way that she would get Stefan off her back because clearly Damon had already spoke to him to he could give talk to her out of what she was planning to do it.

"I know you Claire. And I know that the things you do is always to protect the people that you love, but whatever you're planning to do please don't do it!" Stefan pleaded. "If something happens to you, Damon will be completely devasted and he will blame for not stopping you."

She sighed as she ran her hand through her hair, she knew that he was right. But she couldn't let Bonnie to do this by herself it will ruin her, the young witch had no idea how to handle this kind of magic and she needed to be here to help her, she was telling herself that to save everyone she had to sacrifice a few things.

"You're like a brother to me and I love you, but nothing is going to happen to me. I promise, tell Damon that I'm helping Bonnie tracking Klaus's body and that I'm fine."

He paused for a moment before answering, "Please, don't get into trouble. He will hate me and I can't have my brother hating me again, I promised him that I would protect you no matter what."

"Don't worry, this time I'm not doing something that might put me in danger."

"Is that the truth?"

"Yes it's the truth." Lie.

Alaric was still searching for Klaus's body through the hall of storage units but he couldn't find it. Then he heard the elevator bell as Rebekah came out.

"Damon! Damon, where are you?" Rebekah called out through the hallway. "Damon, this isn't funny."

Rebekah was walking down the hallway of storages unit when suddenly someone grabbed from behind and covered her mouth from making a sound pulling her behind of one of the storages unit.

"Rebekah. Shhhh." Damon whispered in her ear.

When Alaric didn't hear Rebekah's footsteps anymore he stopped in front of a storage unit 1020 and noticed that the lock was broken, he opened the storage and saw that it was empty inside.

Damon and Rebekah were wheeling Klaus's casket towards the car when suddenly Alaric appeard out of nowhere and slammed the blonde's head against the car throwing her to the floor, Damon quickly went to lunge at him but the vampire hunter just kicked him to get him out of the way. He opened Klaus's casket about to stake him.

"No!" Rebekah screamed.

"No, don't!" Damon yelled.

"No! No! No!"

Alaric staked the Original hybrid into his heart, the mummified hybrid gasped before bursting into flames, the dark-haired vampire grabbed Rebekah so she couldn't ran over to him as she kicked and screamed in his arms, completely devasted for loosing her brother. Alaric pulled out the stake from Klaus and turned to the two vampires, he looked straight to Rebekah.

"Next!" Alaric smirked.

"Rebekah, run. Run!" Damon ordered as he pushed her away from him and she quickly rushed from the scene. Damon sped over to Alaric but he threw him to the floor as he went after Rebekah.

Damon was sitting on the floor as he pulled out his phone to call his brother, Klaus was probably the sire of his bloodline and now he was going to die without telling Claire that he loved her.

"Damon."

"Bad news, brother. Alaric staked Klaus. He's dead." Damon informed him.

"I feel okay, do you feel anything?"

"No."

"It took Sage about an hour before she got sick." Stefan reminded him.

"Yeah or Klaus was lying about being the sire of our bloodline." Damon sighed.

"Well, if he wasn't lying... An hour is not enough time to get you all the way back to Mystic Falls."

"For us to have our epic goodbye, Stefan?" Damon questioned.

"Not us, brother. You and Claire."

"Well, I guess you'll just have to say goodbye for both of us, won't you? Call me if you cough up a lung."

Stefan had just finished talking with his brother when Jeremy approached him with a solemn face.

"Stefan. Elena's not at home. Matt and I, we're getting her out of town." Jeremy informed him.

"It's going to be fine... If Klaus was lying, we're going to be all ok." He assured, just then Elijah and Caroline walked over to him.

"What happened?" Elijah questioned but the younger vampire stood silent.

"Stefan?" Caroline pressed.

Claire's phone ran again, she saw that Stefan was calling again. Alaric had probably reached Klaus by now, she let out a breath and answered the phone.

"What's happening?"

"Klaus is dead." She closed her eyes for a moment and tried to breathe so her voice wouldn't betray her.

"He was lying, all of you are going to be fine." She assured him.

"We don't know that for a fact, you have to call Damon. He's not in Mystic Falls, he didn't come."

She was expecting that, she and Damon were too much stubborn and sometimes that could be a problem.

"Stefan, you're going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine."

"I just want to say that you're like a sister to me too, thank you for everything that you've done for me. In case Klaus is really our sire, I want you to be strong and to take care of yourself."

"Hey, don't talk like you're going to die!" She felt tears welling up in her eyes, she was putting the people that she loved through this pain but she couldn't let them know, not yet.

"You need to call Damon."

Damon was still sitting on the floor as his phone began to rang, he pulled out to see that Claire was calling.

"Let me guess, calling to see if the Grim Reaper's paid a visit?" Damon answered.

"To actually believe that you would keep your part of the deal." Claire chuckled.

"What can I say? We both knew that neither of us was going to honour the deal, anyway."

"True. So, how are you feeling? Any symptoms?"

"Not yet. But I'm sure we'll have a laugh when we find out that Klaus is a big, fat liar."

"Yeah, I'm sure we will." Claire nodded. She didn't know if they were going to laugh after finding out the truth, but she would amuse him.

"Hey, where are you?" He questioned.

"I'm with Bonnie, but I'm going to meet you there." She told him, she needed to see him. Alaric was still on the loose and Damon was by himself.

"No, you're not." He scoffed. "Alaric went after Rebekah, but I'm pretty sure that she managed to get away from him, then is going to come back here and do I need to tell you the rest?"

"Damon-"

"So, since I'm possibly a dead man, can I ask you a question?"

"Yeah, of course." She sighed.

"If it was just down to Klaus and me and you had to make a choice who got the goodbye, who would it be?"

Claire was afraid of that question, she closed her eyes for a moment and paused for a moment. She had to choose, she couldn't avoid this forever and it was not fair. Not for Damon and not even for Klaus. "When I met Klaus for the first time, I fell in love with him the first time I saw him. And I spent so many years hating him thinking that he never loved me back and that he was only using me. But along the way, I realized that I never stopped loving him, I hated him because it was easy for me, I didn't want to believe that I still loved him after everything he had done to me, the truth is I never unfell for him." Her voice shook a little. "But when I met you, you were like a breath of fresh air, you were everything that Klaus wasn't and that made me fall for you, when I saw you for the first time there was this gorgeous troubled vampire who completely gained my attention... You were there for me in my darkest period and you saved me from myself, you pulled me out of my darkness and made me a better person. And I loved you even more when you told me that you would always choose me over everyone. And that is the kind of love that I want for me."

"So, you're saying that-"

"I'm saying that I choose you Damon Salvatore. I love you, I've always loved and I will always love you for eternity. Klaus is a part of my life, he was my first love and he still is. But you're my great love, you are my epic love and you are the best thing that happened in my life."

Damon was speechless, for the first time in his life he didn't know what to say. She chose him, she loved him, she still loves him. He was actually scared that she would choose Klaus, because he knew that whatever was going on with them wasn't still over.

"You don't know how happy you made me right now, I was afraid that I might loose you forever... I love you Claire Muratore, I love you like I never loved someone before. With Katherine was an unhealthy obsession, with Elena was a infutiation and with you is real, it's more real than everything in the world."

"Thank you for never giving up on me, even when I hurt you in so many ways, you were always there."

"I can die a happy man now." He joked.

"You're not being funny." She scolded him. "You're going to be fine, do you hear me? I'm going to see you soon and we're going to pick up where we left, we're going to be together again."

"Yes, we are. I love you, if for some reason you won't see me again, don't forget that I love you, my dark angel." He hung up before she could protest, he turned to see Alaric giving him a deathly look. "I see you're still pissed. I take it Goldilocks gave you the slip." Alaric growled at him as he sped over to him and puched him on the face.

Caroline ran down into the Lockwood cellar, desperate to find Tyler. Even though they may or may not be sired by Klaus, but Tyler was definitely one of his hybrids.

"Tyler! Tyler!" She called his name, as she stood in the middle of the cellar, she was begining to panick when she didn't see him anywhere. "Oh my God!"

"Caroline?" A deep voice called from behind her, she turned to see her boyfriend and she quickly launched herself into his arms. "Tyler! Oh my God!"

"Hey, sorry, I was just with Bonnie and Claire." He told her as he pulled away to see how upset the blonde vampire was. "What happened?"

"Klaus died. He's dead." She sobbed.

"You're going to be fine, Caroline." He soothed her.

"No it's no me that I'm worried about." She shook her head.

"There's no point." Tyler sighed. "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 lips passionately when all of the sudden he began to cough and clutching into his chest. "Do you feel anything?"

"No, I feel fine." She replied.

"I need you to get out of here." Tyler told her in a pleading tone. "I don't want you to watch me die."

"No, I'm not leaving!" She replied firmly as he called out in pain. "I'm staying."

"No." He rasped.

"Yes!"

"You run, or I'll make you run." He threatened her.

"I'm not leaving." She held her ground as Tyler began to transform and she backed away from him.

"Go!" He roared.

She quickly rushed out of the cellar, as she left the man that she loved behind to die by himself.

Elena was speaking on the phone with Caroline with tears in her eyes as Matt continued to drive them back to Mystic Falls.

"You too, Care." She whimpered, she hung up and then turned to look at Matt. "It's Tyler, he um... he's..."

"Damn it!" Matt cursed as he began to hit the steering wheel. "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

"Matt, Matt! No. Stop it!" Elena tried to calm him down.

"This isn't how our lives were supposed to be, Elena."

Elijah was in the woods lost in his thoughts when Rebekah appeard in front of him with tears falling down in her face.

"He's gone, Elijah." Rebekah whimpered. "There was nothing I could do to stop it." He walked over to her and embraced her tightly.

"Tyler Lockwood is dead, but the rest survived." Elijah spoke as he was very confused to who might had started their bloodline. "You said Niklaus turned their bloodline."

"I thought he did."

"It wasn't me, it wasn't Kol." Elijah shook his head.

"It wasn't me, Elijah. It was Niklaus, I'm sure of it." Rebekah told him assuringly.

"Then how are they still alive?"

Bonnie and Claire entered the cellar, the two witches had a serious expression on their faces.

"I know you're here." Bonnie called.

Just then, Tyler walked out of the shadows. "I must say you two really did that spell brilliantly." He praised then he turned to Bonnie. "I didn't think you had it in you."

"I did it to save my friends and my mother, Klaus. Not you." Bonnie told him firmly as she stared him down.

"The spirits won't be happy with you." The hybrid countered.

"The spirits don't get to tell me what to do anymore." Bonnie scoffed, she shared a look with Claire and then turned to the hybrid. "I done getting pushed around by all of you. I did it because I wanted to."

With that, the younger witch walked out of the cellar leaving the two hybrids by themselves.

"And what about you? Did you do it to save your friends and lover too?" He questioned. She just shrugged and looked over at him, even though she knew that Klaus was in Tyler's body it was still weird talking with her friend's boyfriend like that.

"If I told you yes, I'd be lying. I did it to save you too."

"You would go against nature and the dead witches just to save me? Why?" He was genuily curious.

"I never did give a damn about the dead witches, like Bonnie said they don't get to tell us what to do. I did it what I had to do to save the people that are important to me and I would all over again." She replied firmly.

"You know that this might have consequences right? The type of magic that you used-"

"I know what I got myself into Klaus." She cut him off. "What matters is that everyone is safe and alive."

"You didn't answer my question, why did you save me? Besides the obvious reason." He took a step towards her.

She stared at him, and then moved her head to the side, "When you told me that I still loved you, you were right, I was in denial. But then I realized something no matter what I feel for you, I will never stop loving Damon and he was there for me in my darkest moment and I still love him Klaus, I always will."

She didn't give him a chance to answer as she walked out of the cellar, leaving him completely alone.

Stefan was pacing the woods, waiting for news about Elena or Damon when his phone began to rang, there was no ID but he answered it anyway.

"Hello?"

"You're alive. Congratulations." Rebekah's voice was sarcastic.

"Rebekah." Stefan noted.

"Elijah spoke to Elena. Her and Matt should be arriving back in town any minute." She informed him.

"Yeah, he told me that." Stefan nodding. "He also said you two would be long gone out of town by now."

"That's the problem." Rebekah replied. "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."

"What are you talking about? We had a deal." Stefan scoffed.

"I'm sorry, but Klaus is dead." She announced, she was hurting over her older brother's death. "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..."

"Rebekah, no!"

Elena was checking her phone and saw that she was almost out of battery. "I need to call Stefan, but my phone is dying."

"Here." Matt pulled out his phone and handed to her. "Use mine."

"Thanks." She smiled at him, when she turned to look at the road and saw Rebekah standing in the middle. "Matt, look out!" She cried as Matt swerved his truck to avoid hitting the Original and the car went flying over the guardrail into the water.

Alaric continued to beat Damon as the dark-haired vampire fell to the floor with blood dripping on his face.

"You're not going to fight back?" Alaric questioned.

"You're kind of invincible, Ric." Damon rasped.

"Don't call me that." Alaric spat as he kicked Damon in the face. "We're not friends."

"We were." Damon reminded him.

"Well, our friendship was part of the problem. It's what kept me weak. It's also why it took so long for the real me to break through and now I'm going to break you." Alaric replied as he hit him one more time. Damon laid still on the floor almost falling into unconsciousness, he closed his eyes for a moment. When he heard her words replaying in his head, the words that she had written in the letter.

And when at night you can't sleep just close your eyes, and try to find my second favourite place in your dreams, when you hear a drop in the ocean, you'll know that everything is going to be okay.

He did picture her in her second favourite place, with her white dress and her flawless face shining in the sun, he promised her always and forever and he was going to keep thar promise.

He opened his eyes to see Alaric towering over him, and he stared at the vampire hunter.

"Is that all you got?"

"Not quite." Alaric answered. He pulled out his stake and when he was about to strike, Damon grabbed his stake and threw Alaric off of him, the vampire got up and hit the hunter in the face.

Claire was outside of the Lockwood cellar, she was going to meet Damon. He was all alone with Alaric, even though all of her friends were save, there was still the Alaric issue. She couldn't kill him without killing Elena and that wasn't an option of course.

She was about to go back to the Boarding House so she could get her car, when suddenly she dropped to her knees and she grabbed her head calling out in pain. Black veins began to creep into her arms and hovering up to her face, her blue orbs changed into deep black ones and her head was exploding, it was like someone was giving her an aneurism.

When she stopped screaming, the black veins disappeard from her face and arms and her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she fell to the ground with a huge thud with her nose bleeding.

Alaric and Damon were still fighting when suddenly Alaric began to feel weak, his skin was changing into a shade of grey and before he could hit the floor Damon grabbed him.

"What's happening?"

Damon was confused to why he was begining to die, when suddenly it clicked into his head. If Alaric was dead, so was Elena.

"What's happening?" Alaric questioned.

Elena's dead body was laying on stretcher inside of the hospital morgue. Stefan was staring down her body helpless with tears in his eyes, when suddenly his phone began to ring. He pulled out to see that Bonnie was calling.

"Hello?"

"Stefan! Stefan... Something happened."

"Bonnie, what is it?" He creased his eyebrows.

"It's Claire, she's not responding, she is-is-"

"Bonnie, what the hell happened with Claire?" He was begining to panick.

"She's laying on the woods unconscious and she's bleeding, I-I don't know what to do..."

"Bonnie, calm down. I'm coming right now." He hung up, he ran his hand through his hair, this couldn't be happening. First Elena and now Claire, he had promised his brother that he would protect her no matter what and he failed miserably.

He looked down at Elena's body one more time and quickly rushed out of the hospital towards the woods.

Bonnie was knelt down beside Claire's body as she tried to bring the hybrid into consciousness. She felt a gust of wind and turned to see Stefan.

"What happened?" He questioned.

"I don't know, I just found her here laying on the middle of the forest." Bonnie's voice shook.

"She did something, didn't she? She promised that she wouldn't do anything to put herself into danger!" Stefan yelled. Bonnie flinched and she quickly pulled out her phone and began to dial a number.

"Who are you calling?" He looked at her.

"Damon, he's the only one who doesn't know yet."

Damon was driving to Mystic Falls, he couldn't believe that Elena was dead. Stefan was probably devasted right now and he needed to be there for his brother. His phone began to rang and saw that Bonnie was calling.

"Bonnie? Why are you calling?" He questioned.

"Damon, something bad happened." Bonnie told him.

"What?"

"It's Claire, she's-"

"What about her? What happened?"

"I found her unsconscious in the middle of the woods bleeding."

"What? No, no. She's not, Bonnie tell me that you're kidding."

"I'm sorry Damon, but she is not waking up. It seems almost like she's dead." Bonnie replied quietly. This was all her fault, she was feeling so guilty right now.

"No, no, no. She can't be, where was Stefan when that happened?" He demanded.

"He was saving Elena, but Claire she should be awake by now, I don't understand why she's not responding."

"No, I can't believe that she would do something like this. Where is she now?"

"Stefan grabbed her and took her to the morgue so he could stay with Elena and Claire."

"Damnit, damnit. Why this is happening right now? She promised me! I'm going to kill Stefan." He hung up, and drove the car to Mystic Falls in a speeding.

Back in the morgue, Claire's body was now laying beside Elena on a scretcher as Stefan was sitting on the floor, with his knees close to his chest crying the loss of the woman that he loved and her sister. She couldn't save either of them and that pained him more than anything. But suddenly Elena opened her eyes and gasped for air, meaning that she was transitioning. Stefan quickly got up to his feet and his eyes widened, the doppelganger had come back to life but Claire was still unconscious.

And season 3 is officially over! Oh my God, can't believe that I finally finished this story! So a lot of things happened in this final chapter, Dlair fans I hope you're celebrating because she chose Damon ;), as for the Kluratore fans don't be sad, their story isn't over yet ;). And Claire got herself into some deep shit, just so you know in the next chapter when she wakes up (don't know when yet, might not be in the first chapter), she's going to waked up different, like not herself.

I can't began to explain how much you guys were amazing to me, all your awesome reviews, opinions and support! Thank you so much for everything, please give your final opinions about this chapter ;)

See you until, October 11th ;)

Note: I'm going to continue the other story, and I'm already working in a new one! My first all human fanfic, still don't know when I'm going to publish it :o