The Sun Also Rises

*AGE CHANGE FROM 12 to 14; Birthday no longer on Founder's Day*

Emma slammed the car door shut and joined Elijah, Alaric, and Stefan to walk over to the witches' burial site.

"The sacrifice is completed in stages as the full moon sets." Elijah began to explain. "First the werewolf is killed, then the vampire. Finally the doppelganger. Once Elena dies, the curse will be broken. Klaus will become hybrid."

"So when do we attack?" Emma asked, Elijah stopping to face her.

"Elena's death will activate his dormant werewolf side. He'll be vulnerable during the transformation. That's when Bonnie comes in." he said.

Stefan nodded. "And you're sure Bonnie will survive this?"

"If she can deliver him to the brink of death, I'll finish the job myself."

Just then, Stefan's phone rang and he excused himself from the group to answer it. "Damon."

The rest of them stood and listened to the conversation. Well, Alaric and Emma could only hear Stefan's side, Elijah could hear the entire thing.

"Cut to the chase. Is the sacrifice happening or not?" Stefan impatiently said. "We're sticking to the original plan. We're meeting Bonnie right now." he said after he let Damon respond to his question. "What?" Stefan asked, shock laced in his tone.

Emma could tell something was wrong and that of course worried her. There was no time for surprises to happen. They desperately needed to stop the ritual. Stefan turned around and looked at Emma and Alaric.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Alaric asked.

Damon must have said something because Stefan looked horrified. "Oh, my god." he said. He said one last thing to Damon before he hung up the phone.

"Stefan? What did Damon say?" Emma asked, too scared to do so at first.

Stefan fiddled with his phone, seeming to stall on his answer. "Um, there's a problem." he started, shoving his phone in his back pocket. "Klaus has Jenna."

Emma went wide eyed and it felt like the world was tilting forward, making her drop to her knees. First Elena and now Jenna? Why was Klaus doing this to their family? Elena had already done everything he asked and this is how he repaid her.

"W-why does he have her? What is he going to do to her?!" she shouted, feeling extremely overwhelmed.

Stefan sighed. "He's going to use her as the vampire sacrifice."

Emma used a shaky hand to cover her mouth as tears flowed from her eyes. "Oh, my god." she whispered, rubbing her hands roughly on her thighs.

The more she thought about it, the more she realized it was her fault that Klaus had Jenna. Emma had left her all alone at the boarding house to go save Caroline and Tyler. Jenna was just introduced to the supernatural world, she didn't know better. If only she had stayed, she would have been able to prevent Jenna from stepping foot out side the house. And now Jenna was going to be sacrificed because of her.

Alaric adjusted his weapons bag on his shoulders, his jaw tightened. "We need to tell Jeremy." he said.

Emma shook her head. "I-I can't."

"It's okay." Alaric assured, dropping the bag on the floor and heading inside to Jeremy.

It seemed that Alaric had asked Bonnie for a moment alone with Jeremy as he told him the news seeing as the witch stepped outside, joining Elijah, Stefan, and Emma. Emma was still on the ground, but sat crisscross. She didn't have the energy to explain to Bonnie the current situation so she let Stefan.

"Why did he take Jenna?" Bonnie asked.

"A punishment for meddling." Elijah responded.

"Klaus was going to use Tyler and Caroline. But-"

"But Damon and I got them out." Emma finished for Stefan, her shoulders slumped.

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

"Bonnie, if you use that much power, you'll be dead." Stefan denied, hands on hips. "We've already been through this. It's not an option."

Bonnie crossed her arms. "Neither is letting Jenna die."

Emma saw Elijah look over at Stefan.

"Well, Stefan would agree with you." the original said, his words making Emma stand up.

Stefan nodded. "We're going to offer another vampire. One that he'll want more."

"Stefan, no." Emma countered. "There has to be a way so that no one dies besides Klaus."

Stefan looked at Emma sadly. "There is no other way." he said.

"I'll do a locator spell to find them." Bonnie said. "Emma, call John and tell him to bring Jonathan's journals. We may have a lead to save Elena."

Emma made one last look at Stefan before nodding and dialing John's number. After she called her uncle, she joined Bonnie in the basement as she did the locator spell. Jeremy reached out and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. It didn't take long for John to arrive with the box full of what they needed.

"I brought the Gilbert journals." he said, setting the box on the small table set up. "I think I know what spell you're talking about."

"Where's Damon." Bonnie asked.

John took out on of the books. "Upstairs. Alaric wanted to talk to him."

Emma's eyebrows came together in confusion. "What's spell?" she asked, changing the subject back to the matter at hand.

John opened one of the journals and flipped through the pages. "It's here somewhere, hold on."

"We don't have time to hold on." Emma said, getting annoyed.

Damon had joined everyone downstairs without Alaric.

"Here." John said, pointing to a paragraph Jonathan had written. "Jonathan journaled the story of a mother who called on Emily's services. The woman's baby was sick; dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child."

"Skip to the save Elena part." Damon demanded.

John sighed. "Well, the child died, but the mother's life force flowed through her, restoring her to life."

"We already know Elena's going to come back to life. She'll be a vampire." Jeremy pointed out.

"Not if her soul remains intact." John replied.

Damon scoffed. "Her soul, really? You're going to put your faith in some act of god mumbo jumbo?" He looked at Emma to see if she was with him, but she shrugged.

John advanced towards Damon. "I refuse to let Elena become the thing I've spent my life protecting her against. And you can call that god or mystical energy, whatever you want, but yes. . . I'm putting my faith in it." he argued and with that, John motioned Bonnie to do the spell.

John sat on a wooden chair in the center of the basement, Bonnie standing behind him. Damon, Emma, and Jeremy stood by and watched Bonnie place her hands on either side of John's head. She closed her eyes and began to chant in Latin.

Damon snapped his fingers rapidly. "Come on, Bonnie, we got a hybrid to kill." he urged.

Emma slapped his arm. "Let her concentrate."

Bonnie let a breath out and opened her eyes, her arms falling to her side. "It's done." she said.

"That's it?" Damon asked. When he got a nod from Bonnie, he headed towards the basement stairs. "Let's go."

"I'll be back soon." Bonnie said, following Damon.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Jeremy asked, stopping the witch. It seemed to have clicked in his head. "No, I'm coming. I need to be there. I need to make sure you guys are okay."

"And who's going to make sure you're okay?" Bonnie retorted.

Jeremy held up his hand. "I got my ring. Look, I'm not taking no for an answer." he said.

Emma empathized with Jeremy. It killed her not knowing if Elena or Jenna were okay but what were Jeremy and Emma going to do when they got to the ritual? They didn't have vampire strength and speed like Damon. They didn't have magic like Bonnie. They didn't even have the fighting skills and weapons like Alaric. They would be no match to Klaus and the witch he has. It would be a suicide mission if they went.

Bonnie placed her hand on Jeremy's cheek and brought him down for a light kiss. As they pulled away, Jeremy smiled down at the witch, but began to stumble back from dizziness. John came up behind Jeremy and caught him in his arms. He gently lowered the passed out teen down on the chair recently sat on.

"Go." Emma said, nodding her head towards Damon. "We'll stay with him." And Bonnie and Damon left.

The worst part, Emma realized, about staying behind was the wait. It was agonizing being stuck in the house, not being able to do anything. A short while after Bonnie and Damon climbed up the stairs, Alaric joined the Gilberts in the basement and Emma could only assume that the others prevented him from going as well. Jeremy had woken up from the spell Bonnie cast on him and he was not pleased. Emma had tried to calm him down, to see some reason, but he didn't want to hear it, too mad to care. No one slept, the wait keeping them up.

John was silent the whole time, the only thing he did was sit at a table, scribbling on a piece of paper. It wasn't long till the sun rose, it's light shining through the small rectangle windows.

Alaric leaned against a wall, sighing as he looked up. "We should have heard from them by now."

Emma was flipping through the journal John had found the spell Bonnie did on him. "Did you read all this?" she asked, running her hand over the rough pages.

John stopped writing and looked back at her. "I did."

"So you understand what happened to the child's mother after the baby was brought back to life." said Jeremy, sitting on the bundle of blankets he brought for Bonnie.

Folding the paper he wrote on, John placed the letter in an envelope. "She saved her daughter. She found peace."

"John. . ." Jeremy said, trailing off.

Emma gripped the sides of the journal, sadness and a bit of anger filling her. There was too much death happening. Sure John was an ass sometimes, but he was a decent guy. He did everything for family. He was giving Elena his life so that she could live.

John stood up from his seat and went over to Emma, holding the envelope. He held it out to her. "I need you to give this to Elena for me. And this." he said, placing the envelope and the Gilbert ring in her hands.

"Whoa, hey, what's going on?" Alaric voiced, confused. Emma carefully put the stuff in her jacket pocket.

John struggled what to say next but all he could do was sigh and look at the Gilbert siblings. "Take care of each other, please." he finally said. 

Jeremy reached out and held Emma's hand tightly, the two of them nodding in response to John's request. The front door upstairs opened, causing Emma's heart to leap out of her chest with anxiety.

"I think they're here!" Alaric exclaimed, rushing up the steps.

Emma and Jeremy quickly followed behind him. They entered the den, where Damon had placed Elena's limp body on a torn up sofa. Emma saw the puncture holes made by Klaus, dried blood around the wound.

"How is she?" Jeremy asked.

Damon shook his head, moving a strand of hair away from Elena's face. "I don't know yet."

"What about Jenna?" Alaric asked, Damon looking back at them with sorrowful eyes. "No."

"I'm sorry." Damon said, turning back to Elena.

Alaric stepped away for a moment to collect himself. Emma squeezed her eyes shut to prevent tears from falling. It was sad to admit but Emma had the feeling that Jenna wasn't going to make it. Klaus wasn't the person to care what others wanted.

Just then, Elena sat up with a gasp, making everyone jump. Emma and Jeremy rushed forward and they both held onto their sister. Elena looked at everyone around her.

"What happened?" she asked.

"How do you feel?" Damon asked, his right hand cradling her head.

"I feel fine." Elena confessed, sending a wave of relief through all of them. She wasn't a vampire.

The more Emma said to herself in her head that Elena was still human, made her realize that Bonnie spell had worked. She swiftly turned around and saw John, through the front door, outside. Time slowed down as she watched him. He was standing still, staring ahead when he fell forward.

"John!"

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Emma slipped on her black flats, checking herself in her wall mirror. She wore a black dress that stopped at her knees and she had her mother's necklace clasped around her neck. It was her outfit for Jenna's and John's funeral.

After Elena had come back to life, Stefan and Bonnie came back to the house to deliver the news that Elijah had betrayed them all, escaping with a very much alive Klaus. Emma kicked herself inwardly, angry that she put all her trust in him. Her vision had made her so sure that Elijah was on their side, but it turned out that her vision cut off right before Elijah vamped away with Klaus.

Emma went over to the jacket she wore then that was laying on her bed. She reached inside the pocket and pulled out John's letter and ring. She clutched them in her hand and she headed for Elena's room. She paused at the door frame, watching as Elena put on her final earring.

"Hey." she said, tapping the door with her knuckle.

Elena looked over at her and smiled. "I'm almost ready."

Emma nodded and entered the room. "Um, I have something for you." she said, holding out the items. "John wanted you to have these."

Elena held the letter and the ring gently. "I'm sorry."

"For what?" Emma asked.

"That you and Jeremy have lost so many people."

"We still have each other." Jeremy said, joining the two girls. 

They all looked at one another with sad smiles and hugged each other, holding on tightly. Jeremy and Emma had given Elena a moment alone so that she could read John's letter in privacy, and when she was ready, they met up with everyone else at cemetery. The Gilbert siblings held red roses as they all walked over to Jenna's and John's freshly made graves.

Emma went first, kneeling down between the mini dirt piles of their graves. With a rose in each hand, she placed them at the center of their graves. She felt too uncomfortable to say anything out loud. She was the same way when it was her parents funeral. At that time, all she did was stand next to Jenna as everyone else spoke about their favorite memories of Grayson and Miranda.

A few tears escaped and she brushed them off with her hand. She got up and joined by Jeremy's side. Next was Elena. She copied Emma's actions, placing her own roses on their graves. Though, when she got up, she noticed their parents graves, and she went over and placed roses down on theirs.

This was a day Emma would truly never forget.

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How was that guys? I take back what I said in the last chapter, this is one of the shortest chapters. The reason being because Emma wasn't part of the sacrifice so there was no point for her to go to the ritual area. Let me know what you thought of the chapter!

I sadly have bad news. I start school again on TUESDAY. That means I sadly won't have that much time to update as much as I have in the past week. I'm really sorry. It's just that it's my senior year and I really can't slack off on my school work. BUT DO NOT FRET, I will try my best to update when I can.

So with that being said, I hope everyone is have/had a good day today and a great winter break for those who are still in school like me. And for those of you who celebrate this holiday (I do), Happy Three Kings Day! <3