Chapter 13

It's been a couple of days at the old witch house. We're in the loop on everything, but we could compromise Bonnie's safety by leaving, so Jeremy and I have been staying with Bonnie. Stefan has been bringing us the necessities at night, so we're okay on food and water. Damon texted me this morning and told me the sacrifice was happening tonight and Stefan texted me that Damon fed Elena his blood, which meant once she died during the sacrifice, she would come back as a vampire. I am currently dodging Damon's calls since he did that to Elena. Idiot. Right now, I was waiting for my dad to come to the old witch house. He's bringing Elijah and Stefan so we can go over the plan. I heard a knock on the door. I opened it and saw my dad, Stefan, and Elijah. I wrapped my arms around my dad.

"I'm glad you're okay." I said with a sigh of relief.

"I missed you."

"I missed you too, but there's something I need to tell you." I pulled away from him.

"It's about Jenna."

"What is it? Is she okay?" I asked. I looked at Stefan and he looked down.

"What?"

"Klaus is using Jenna as the vampire in his ritual." My eyes widened.

"Since Damon saved Caroline and Tyler, she needed a new vampire an werewolf. He has a werewolf, but he needed a vampire, so he turned Jenna and he's gonna kill her."

"Oh my gosh .." I said trying to take in this overwhelming news.

"Where's Elena?"

"She's with Klaus." Stefan told me.

"You let her go with him ?!" I yelled.

"She's gonna come back. Even if it's as a vampire, she's gonna be alive." Stefan explained. I sighed.

"I have to go tell Jeremy." My dad said going down the stairs. A few moments later, Bonnie joined us. She looked between me and Stefan before looking back at me. I sighed before explaining to her what happened.

"Wait, why didn't Klaus use Katherine for the curse, or any other vampire? Why did he turn Jenna? He could've turned anyone." Bonnie asked.

"A punishment for meddling." Elijah answered.

"Klaus was going to use Tyler and Caroline. But Damon rescued them." Stefan told her. "

Then we need to go. Now. Before Jenna's been sacrificed. I can kill Klaus myself." Bonnie said.

"Bonnie.If you use that much power, you'll be dead. We've already been through this. It's not an option." I told her.

"Neither is letting Jenna die." She said looking at me.

"Well, Stefan would agree with you." Elijah said. I looked at Elijah confused before looking at Stefan.

"What is he talking about?" I asked Stefan. He took my hand and pulled me inside leaving Bonnie and Elijah outside.

"We're going to offer another vampire. One that he'll want more. Me." I shook my head immediately.

"No. You're not going to die." I told him.

"It's the only option." He told me.

"No. I can't handle anymore loss, Stefan. I told you that. I told you I can't loose anyone else." I said feeling the tears start to form in my eyes. Stefan sighed before he spoke.

"I have to do this. Elena would want Jenna to live."

"It's not all about Elena!" I yelled.

"I know her death is the only way the curse is going to be broken, and I know you love her, and I know that you'll do anything to protect her and her feelings, but what about everyone else? Huh? What about the people who will suffer because you let your love for Elena get yourself killed? What about Damon? What about me? "I asked as tears slipped from my eyes.

" Do you know what would happen to me if you died? Someone I let in, someone I got close too, someone I started to develop feelings for ... "He looked at me with tears in his eyes.

" Someone that promised me they would always be there for me is going to leave and never come back. "

" Myra, I'm so sorry. I didn't-- "

" Of course you didn't. You were so busy trying to figure out how to save Elena. "I said wiping some of my tears.

" If you want to go commit suicide for Elena, by all means, go do it. I know where your priorities lie, not like they would be anywhere else. "I opened the door for him waiting for him to walk out.

" Before I go, I thought you should know that I'm sorry I promised you I would be there and now I have to leave. But I'm not sorry that you let me in. I'm not sorry we became close. And I'm not sorry you developed feelings for me, because then I would have never told you I developed feelings for you. "I looked up at him in pure and utter shock.

" I don't know how it happened. I wanted them to go away. That's why I wanted space from you. But without you, I just felt alone, even with Elena there. "He paused.

" And every time you would open up to me, these feelings would grow a little more each time, to the point where I would want to be around you more then Elena. I still love Elena, but the feelings I have for you are starting to take over and I don't know what to do about it. "

" You go save Jenna. That's what. "He looked at me confused.

" It doesn't matter if you like me back. I would rather Elena be happy with you and me be alone than Elena being hurt. I mean she's going to be a vampire. Everything will be heightened. She would be devastated. "I sighed before taking steps closer to him." But, since this is goodbye, I need to do this. "I put my hands on the sides of his face and pulled him in for a kiss. It was just a short kiss but I poured everything I felt for him into that kiss. When he pulled away, I opened my eyes and he was gone. I looked outside and Bonnie and Elijah were gone as well. I tried to walk out of the door , but I couldn't. There was a barrier shielding me from getting out.

"Dammit Bennett." I said angrily. I didn't have the power to break the spell so I was stuck there. I was in the basement of the old witch house, laying on Jeremy's shoulder. It had been an hour or so. My tears had dried as I stared into a random space. Suddenly, I heard a door open.

"I think they're here!" My dad said. I stood up and ran up the stairs. I rush into the room to see Damon looking over Elena, worriedly.

"How is she?" Jeremy asked. "I don't know yet." Damon said looking down at Elena.

"What about Jenna?" My dad asked. Damon finally looked back at us without saying a word. He shook his head.

"No." My dad said in disbelief. My eyes started to water before I realized something.

"I'm sorry, Jeremy." Damon said.

"Wait, what about Stefan?" I asked him. Nobody got the chance to answer me because suddenly, Elena gasped back to life.

"Elena!" Damon said happily.

"What happened?" She asked sitting up.

"How do you feel?" Damon asked concerned.

"I feel fine." She said with relief. Damon and Jeremy both breathed a sigh of relief, along with me and my dad. John and Jenna's funeral. That's where everyone was now. I was standing next to Caroline as Elena put roses down on John and Jenna's graves, along with her parents' graves, Miranda and Grayson. My dad then laid a rose down at Jenna's grave, and I did the same. After the funeral was over and everyone else had left, I was standing in front of Jenna's grave. I looked up and saw Stefan watching Damon as he walked away from him. Stefan then turned and saw me. I turned my heel and started to walk away.

"Wait!" I heard him say. I turned to him.

"Listen, I--"

"I think we shouldn't see each other anymore." He looked at me with disbelief.

"What, why?" He asked.

"You are still with Elena. The way we feel about each other doesn't matter. Elena needs you. And when I'm around you, my feelings for you grow, so ... I should just not be around you. You understand right? " I asked him.

"Yeah, I understand." He said nodding.

"Thank you." I said turning and walking away. It was the next day. I told Elena I would stay at her house for support for her and Jeremy. My dad crashed on the couch, while I laid on the floor in Elena's room. I was eating some breakfast when my phone started to ring. I didn't look at the caller I.D. I answered it.

"Hello?"

"I need your help." I recognized to be Stefan say.

"I don't think you know what 'we should not see each other' means." I said going to hang up.

"Wait wait wait ..." He said quickly.

"What?" I asked.

"It's Damon. He's dying." I furrowed my brows.

"What?" I asked him confused.

"Tyler Lockwood bit him. We don't have much time." He explained.

"Oh my gosh. What can I do?" I asked him. He told me to watch Damon to make sure he didn't kill himself. I agreed. Then, I hung up, got dressed, and rushed out the house to my car. Shortly, I arrived at the Boarding House. I ran to the cellar where Damon was sitting, looking pale and sweaty.

"Oh ... Damon ..." I said looking through the cellar window.

"Myra.what are you doing here?" He asked with a raspy, sick voice.

"I'm here for you. And we're not gonna think about how I might not see you tomorrow. Stefan will find a cure. You'll be alright." I told him with a smile.

"You're hope is sickening." He said groaning as he adjusted in his seat.

"If I don't have hope right now, I would not be standing here talking to you. I would be in my room crying. So, if you don't mind, I think I'll hold on to the hope that you 're gonna be okay. " I told him. He lifted up his sleeve to show me his bite.

"That doesn't look so bad." I lied.

"It feels terrible., My subconscious is haunting me, Myra. Please tell me you have something for that." He said leaning his head against the hay behind him. I smiled.

"I think that's why I brought this down." I said holding up a bottle of scotch. I put a glass of it on the window sill along with Damon's ring.

"Double shot." I said pouring more scotch into the glass.

"That's good." He said. He got up, groaning. He put his ring on, took the glass, and sat back in his chair.

"So my brother sent you for suicide watch?"

"He's just trying to help." I told him.

"He's doing what he always does, trying to right the wrongs of the past." Damon said before screaming and bending over in pain.

"You should want me dead. I'm the reason Jenna got killed."

"I don't blame you for Jenna. Not for one minute." I told him.

"Oh, sure you do. Let's not forget I turned your mother into a vampire. You must really hate me for that one." I sighed.

"I used to. But, over time, I have learned to forgive you, believe it or not." I saw his drink was empty. "Here give me your glass." Damon got closer and grabbed my neck through the door window.

"Kill me. Please." He said with pleading eyes.

"I will not give up on you." I said as his grip became tighter. I reached into my back pocket and grabbed a vervain syringe. I injected it into his arm. He groaned and fell on the floor.

"No. Elena?" He said as he laid on the floor.

"Elena's not here, Damon." I said with a sigh.

"I need blood. I need blood." Damon said in pain. I went to the fridge of blood in the room next door. I picked up a blood back and turned to go back to the cellar but froze when I saw Sheriff Forbes pointing her gun at me.

"Where's Damon?" She asked me. "Can you put your gun down please? I'm just a teenager." I told her.

"How do I know you won't kill me?" She asked.

"Why would I kill you? You're Caroline's mother. I would never kill you or anyone else." I told her.

"But Damon would. Now where is he?" She asked keeping her gun held up at me.

"Sheriff, over here." Someone said from the other room. "I wouldn't go in there!" I yelled.

"I just want to talk to him." She told me.

"I wouldn't go in there!" I yelled trying to head to the door. She then closed the door locking me out.

"No!" I banged on the door many times hoping they would open it. After a few minutes, I heard no noise at all. I backed up and kicked the door down. I walked into the cell and saw Damon was gone and so were the police.

"Dammit." I called Jeremy.

"Jeremy, you need to find Damon. He's been bitten by a werewolf and he's running around town square. He's not okay. You have to find him and get him away from everyone."

"Got it. I'll tell the others." He said before hanging up. I ran to my car and started driving. A little while later, I got a call from Jeremy. "Hey it's me. I'm with Damon at the Grill. "

" Oh good. Is he okay? "He didn't answer. Instead I heard a gun shot.

" Jeremy! What's happening? "

" Oh, God. Oh, God. "I heard Sheriff Forbes say.

" Sheriff? Sheriff? Liz! What's going on? "I yelled into the phone. Nobody heard me. I ended the call and called my dad.

" Hey, dad. Get to the Grill. Something's happening. I don't know what. I heard a gun shot and Jeremy wouldn't respond to me. "

" Okay I'm on my way. "He told me.

" Okay. I'll meet you there. I just have to get something. "He said okay and I hung up. I had to go to my house and grab some more vervain syringes since I used my last one. I walked towards the door and once I opened it, I saw the most horrifying thing in my life. My eyes widened and I covered my mouth at the sight of uncountable blood bags leading to Stefan, who was ripping apart a blood bag.

"Oh my god ..." I said causing Stefan to look at me.

"Now who do we have here?" A man said causing me to turn to him. This was him. The one we were trying to kill.

"Klaus." I said backing up into the door.

"No need to be afraid little one. What is your name? "He asked with a smirk. I didn't answer.

" What is it ?! "He yelled.

" Myra. It's Myra. "I said breathing heavily.

" Ah, Myra. The new witch. "He said with a smile." If you learned how to control your magic, you could be of good use to me seeing as my other witches are dead and scattered. "

" No. "Stefan said.

" I'll go with you. I'll leave with you and do as you ask. But please save my brother and let her go. That is all I ask. "Stefan said.

" Why do you want to protect her so badly? "Klaus asked. Stefan looked at me and I looked at him with disbelief that he is leaving with Klaus.

" Oh, now I get it . You have thing for her. Now it all makes

sense. "Klaus said as he laughed.

" Very well, since you cooperated, I will grant you this. "He said looking at Stefan. He looked back at me.

" But we will meet again. "He said with a smile.

"Katherine .."

"Yes?" Katherine asked from the other side of the room. She walked over to him and stood in front of him.

"Take this over to Damon and come right back." He said holding out a bottle of blood. He compelled her.

"You want me to leave?" She asked.

"No!" Stefan yelled.

"Yes and if I were you ..." Klaus was interrupted by Katherine taking the bottle and rushing out of the room using her vampire speed.

"I'd hurry .." Klaus said with a smile.

"She'll never take it to him." Stefan said angrily. Klaus cocked his head in a gesture of indifference. Stefan looked down.

"She'll never take it to him.

"Alright, you can leave now." Klaus said looking at me. I looked at Stefan and my heart broke that he's leaving.

"Now ... because Stefan and I are leaving tonight, and I will not have any delays."

"Stefan ... don't go." I said with tears falling from my eyes.

"I have to. Now please go." He said. I didn't move.

"GO!" He yelled as his eyes turned red and veiny. I backed up into the door, opened it, and walked out. I closed the door and ran to my car, crying. I got in the front seat and drove. When I arrived at the Boarding House, I ran inside to see if Damon was okay.

"Damon?" I yelled.

"Damon!" I said running to his room. I found him there laying down, with Elena next to him.

"How is he?" I asked her.

"He's fine. Katherine brought the cure." I sighed in relief. She stood up and we walked out of the room to give Damon some quiet.

"Elena, I need to tell you something ... It's about Stefan." I said.

"I know. He's leaving with Klaus." She said.

"Katherine told me." I nodded. She started tearing up.

"Why is this happening? First John and Jenna, and now Stefan. I keep loosing people."

"Hey .." I said moving towards her. I brought her in for a hug.

"Stefan will be back. I know he will." I said rubbing her back to comfort her.