The Vampire Diaries(BxB)

2: The Sacrifice Ritual

I'm still at the Quarry with Jenna, and she groans, as I look at her. "Oh, my head. What's wrong with me?" She asks. "Do you remember what happened?" I ask. "You called me. You were so scared. Oh, ah, I should have realized that it wasn't you. The second I walked out of the house, someone grabbed me. A vampire." She says. "Klaus. It was Klaus. Him and Elijah are brothers. Well, half." I say. "Wow. Talk about a crazy family of in laws. He made me drink his blood. And I don't.. I don't remember anything after that." She says, shaking her head, and looks around. "Where are we? What happened?" She asks, and I take her hands. "We're at the Quarry. He brought us here." I say. "Why don't I remember anything?" She asks. "Jenna, do you remember.. when I told you how someone becomes a Vampire?" I ask. "Yeah, if you die with Vampire Blood in your system, it's.. oh, God. He killed me." She says. "Jenna, listen to me. Listen to me. Everything's going to be okay. I'm going to get you out of here." I say. "I'm a Vampire?" She asks. "And I bet you're hungry." Grendel says, as we look at him, approaching us, and I see a sharp rock on the ground, and run over to it, and he pushes me with magic, extending his right hand out, as I scream, and fall, and stand up, as a ring of fire appears around me, as I grunt, and try to get out of it. "Don't bother trying to get through. I spelled the circle. You're trapped. No matter what you do." He says, smiling. "Grendel.. please just. Just let her go." I say, and he cuts his right wrist with the rock, blood coming out. "Klaus chose her." He says. "No." I say. "Drink it." He says, putting it to Jenna's face, and I look at Jenna. "Jenna, don't!" I exclaim. "I can't." She says. "Let her go. Hey!" I exclaim, and Jenna's breathes heavily. "No!" I exclaim, and she bites his wrist, and I gasp, and she holds his hand, moaning, and he knocks her down. "That's enough." He says, and walks away from her. "Jenna. It's going to be okay." I say, and a circle of fire appears behind her, and she scoots backwards. "Jenna. Look at me. Hey, look at me." I say, as she looks at me, as I see blood on her mouth. "It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay." I say, nodding. "No." She says, shaking her head, and I see her eyes change, and I see her veins. She's sitting down, with her legs up, hugging her knees, as I'm walking around. "How are you feeling?" I ask. "I feel like myself. Only not. Everything is brighter. The fire's hotter. Part of me is terrified, but there's another part of me that doesn't want to feel anything." She says. "Vampires can turn off the part that's human. That's the part that hurts." I say, and tears form in her eyes. "I'm gonna die, aren't I?" She asks. "No! Jenna, I'm not going to let that happen." I say, shaking my head. "I don't care what I have to do." I say, and we hear a woman groaning, and I look forward. "Who's that?" She asks. "That must be the Werewolf." I say, and see a blonde woman and Grendel, and he shoves her to the ground, as she groans, and Grendel crouches down next to him, and stand stands back up, and walks away from her, and cast a circle of fire around her. "Grendel, warlocks are supposed to maintain the balance in Nature. It's your duty to them to keep this curse sealed." I say. "My duty is to Klaus! The New Order." He says, and I see Klaus. "Glad to know I still have a dance partner." Klaus says, and looks at us. "Hello, my lovelies. Are we ready?" He asks. Jules continues groaning, and I look to my left, and see Grendel over a fire, with a stone bowl, chanting, and look forward, and see Klaus approaching the blonde woman. "Everything I did.. I was just trying to help Tyler." The blonde girl says. "Are you Jules?" I ask. "I didn't want him to be alone!" She exclaims, and groans again, and her ring of fire ends, and she growls, dashing over to Klaus, and he dashes to her, and tackles her, pinning her to the ground, and reaches into her chest with his right hand, and pulls her heart out. Klaus is holding Jules' heart out over the stone bowl, letting the blood drip down. "The day that the lawyers called to tell me that I was going to become your guardian, you know what my first thought was?" Jenna asks, and I look down at her, and shake my head, as I see she has more tears. "Isn't there someone else who can do this?" She asks, and I sigh. "Jenna, there was no one else who could have gotten me and Jeremy through all of that." I say, and she shakes her head. "It's just the thought that I almost passed up taking care of you." She says, as I approach the edge of the fire. "But you didn't." I say, and kneel down. "You put your entire life on hold to help us." I say. "Look around, Ethan. I failed you." She says. "No. You didn't." I say, and shake my head. "I failed you. I'm so sorry. Listen. Being a vampire, it intensifies your guilt. But it also makes you stronger and faster. You can fight back. I'm gonna get through this. I'll be okay. I need you to believe that." I say, and look at Klaus and Grendel, and back to her. "Promise me, when you get the chance.." I say, and put my left index finger to my lips, and put my hand down. "Run." I whisper, and she nods. "Ok." She whispers. Klaus approaches Jenna, holding a wooden stake in his right hand, as I'm sitting on my knees. "Hello, Jenna." He says, and Jenna stands up, and so do I. "Let her go.  I understand that I have to die, but she doesn't!" I exclaim, walking forward, and the flames flare up, and I step backwards. "Careful." He says. "Ethan, don't." She says. "No, Jenna! We can't leave Jeremy without a family." I say, and look at Klaus. "I followed your rules, I did everything that you asked. Hell, I even gave you the Moonstone. I didn't run. Please." I say, shaking my head. "Well, well. I don't recall you being on the Guest List." He says, looking up, and so do I, and see Stefan. "Looks like the fiancé is here. Very well, then." Klaus says, and dashes up to him. "What's going on?" She asks. "I. I don't know." I say, and look at her. "You can hear them." I say, and she looks at me. "You can hear anything. Just. Just focus on them." I say, looking at Klaus and Stefan, and back to her, pointing up to them with my right index finger, and put my hand down. "What are they saying?" I ask. "I can't. I can't make it out." She says, shaking her head. "You can do this. Just relax. Focus." I say. "I can hear him. I hear Stefan." She says, and I look up at them, and back to her. "What are they saying?" I ask. "Oh, my God." She says. "What is it?" I ask, and she looks at me. "He wants to take my place." She says, and shakes her head, and I look up at them. I'm walking around in the circle of fire. "Ethan.." She says. "have to do something. This can't happen. None of it." I say. "Quite the predicament." He says, and I walk to the edge of the fire. "You know, it's funny, all this talk about preserving family, and here's Stefan, granting your wish." He says, and I notice Stefan, and sigh. "Stefan.." I say, sadly. "It's okay." He says, nodding. "Well, who's it going to be, Ethan." He says, pointing between Jenna and Stefan with the wooden stake. "No." I say. "Oh, don't worry. There's actually no choice." He says, and vampspeeds behind Stefan, and stabs him in the back with the stake, and Stefan screams. "No! Stefan!" I yell, and he groans. "No!" I exclaim, crying, as he crumbles to the ground, and Klaus pulls the stake out. "I have other plans for your fiancé. I want him alive. But for now.." He says, and breaks Stefan's neck, making him spin and fall, as I gasp. "Whenever you're ready, Grendel." Klaus says, and Jenna's fire ends. "No." I say. "Your turn." Klaus says. "No, Jenna, no!" I exclaim, walking forward, and the flames flare up, and I step back. "It's all right, Ethan. I know what I have to do." She says, and I cry more, and she vampspeeds to Grendel, biting the left side of his neck, and Klaus stabs her in the back, and puts his left arm around her neck, as Grendel falls, as she screams, and he tosses her onto the floor, as she groans, and I gasp. "Jenna, no!" I yell, crying harder, and she looks at me, as Klaus approaches her. "Just turn it off. Jenna. Turn it off. You won't be scared anymore." I say, shaking my head, and he flips her over, and stakes her in the heart. "No! Jenna! No! Jenna!" I yell, crying harder. I hear Stefan groaning, as I'm sitting on my knees, and look over at him, and he looks at Jenna, and back to me. "I'm so sorry." He says, and I put my right index finger to my lips, and put my hand down. "Are they going to kill him?" I whisper, and he nods. "Yes." He whispers, and I look forward, and see Klaus approaching me. "It's time." He says, and the fire ends, and he offers his right hand, and I stand up, and walk past him, and walk over to altar, and look at Jenna's body, and Klaus touches the left side of my face, and turns it, making me look at him, as I hear Stefan groan. "Thank you, Ethan." He says. "Go to hell." I say, and look forward, and he bites me, and gags. "What the bloody hell?" He asks, dropping. "Vervain." I say, and he stands up quickly. "It just surprised me, love. You've got fire." He says. "I'm not afraid of you or death." I say, and he bites me again, draining me of blood, as I look forward, blankly, and he wraps his arms around my neck, and my eyes close, and I die. I wake up, gasping, and feel someone touching my hair, as I'm laying down, and see Damon. "Ethan!" Damon exclaims. "Hey!" Jeremy exclaims, as I'm gasping, and look at him. "What happened?" I ask, looking at Damon. "How do you feel?" He asks. "I feel fine. I feel.. human." I say, and he exhales. I'm in my bedroom, facing the mirror, putting on my black nose ring, looking at all the pictures of my parents and Jenna, wearing my black formal long sleeve and a silver tie, and hear a knock on my open door, and look at Jeremy, and he walks over to me. "I'm almost ready." I say, and sigh. "Take your time." He says, and I exhale, looking down, and back up to my pictures. "John wanted me to give you this." He says, as I look at him, and see he's holding a letter in his left hand, and he gives it to me, as I take it with my both hands. "And this." He says, holding out the Gilbert Ring, as I hold out my right hand, and he puts it in my palm, and I look up at him, and he begins to walk off, as I look down at the ring. "Jeremy.." I say, and he stops, and I look up at him. "I'm so sorry." I say, shaking my head, and he walks over to me. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you've lost so many people." I say, and he looks down, nodding, and back up to me. "I still have you." He says, and a few tears drop from my eyes, sigh, and nod, and walk over to him, putting my arms around his neck, and his around my back, and we release, and I step back, and we smile at each other. "Are you going to be okay with having crazy in laws?" I ask. "That's if they don't kill us first." He says, and turns around, and walks off, and I look down at the letter, and turn around, and walk over to my window, and sit next to it, and look down at the letter, and open it. "Ethan.. it's no easy task being an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. You're intelligence is incredible. I failed in that task of being your parent. And because of my prejudices, I failed you. I'm haunted by how things might have played out differently. If I'd been more willing to hear your side of things. 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. 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. PS. I'm glad you hugged me and gave me a chance." I read to myself, crying. I'm walking with everyone in the graveyard, holding red roses, and crouch down next to John's and Jenna's tombstone, and set them down, and stand up, and walk over to my parents tombstone, crying, and set roses, and look up at Damon, and stand up, as he gives a sad smile, and walks off. Jeremy offers his right arm, and I put my left hand in it, and we walk off with Tony and Mark.