Title: Doppelgangers in Love.
Show: Vampire Diaries.
Pairing: Elena/Katherine.
Rating. K+
Summary: This is a femslash version of VD. Meaning, all the girls are presumed to be lesbian. The story is about Katherine and Elena trying to start a life together in spite of the fact that nobody supports them and to make matters worse, there's a new threat to Elena's life that complicates things even more.
Authors Notes: I started this story over a year ago. It was right after the scene in which Elena stabs Rebekah before the prom. The story is about Elena/Katherine, but it has a lot of Elena/Rebekah elements in it as well.
Disclaimer:I don't own anything. The characters belong to LJ Smith and the CW Television Network.
Chapter 1.
Katherine watched with an amused smile as countless vampires and a few odd werewolves tried to turn Stefan and Damon into their next meal. She happily sat on the balcony, looking in through the window high above their living room.
She took out a fresh ripe apple, opened her mouth, took a nice big bite and continued to laugh as her two favorite brothers fought for their lives. All was going well until, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Elena walk into the room. She tossed the apple aside, kicked down the window and jumped down into the mass of bodies below.
Kicking aside anything that got in her way, Katherine made it to Elena just as a rather unsavory looking vampire had grabbed her by the neck. She took particular joy in tossing him across the room, smiling as he landed on a large spike on the far wall. She turned back towards Elena, "Well, I should ask what you're doing here, but we both know you can't stay away from the Salvatore's."
"I had no choice. I need Stefan's help with something." Elena said, ducking out of the way of yet another vampire. She steadied herself and shot Katherine one of her patented disapproving looks, "What the hell is going on here anyway? Why aren't you helping them?"
Smiling at Damon fighting off two vampires at once, Katherine couldn't help but smirk, "Perhaps because I don't like them."
"Katherine! We've talked about this." Elena snapped, "They are my friends, so if this is going to work you can't just stand around and watch them die. You might find it amusing, but I don't. So, what are you going to do?"
"Do you really want me to become a goody-goody like you?" Katherine asked bluntly. She quickly put on her delicious smile when faced with Elena's disapproving glare, "No offense, but I think you like me because I'm wild and unpredictable. Besides, no matter what you want to believe, those two are the greatest threat to my life and our future happiness."
"There's not going to be any happiness if you don't help them." Elena said, glaring deep into Katherine's mischievous eyes, "So go on. Do your thing. I'll wait."
"Oh fine." Katherine said, directing Elena towards the door, "but could you please step outside, because I'm not leaving you alone here, so if you want me to help, get out."
"Okay, I'm going."
Katherine followed Elena outside, pushed her up against the wall and kissed her passionately on the lips. Elena responded instantly, quickly wrapping her arms around Katherine, pulling her in close as she kissed her hard and deep.
As they continued to kiss wildly, the door opened and Damon stepped outside with them, "Well, isn't this sweet, the two sisters making out. If I hadn't been part of that a thousand times it would be pretty hot."
"Shut up." Both girls said in unison.
"Awe, isn't that just adorable. You finish each other's sentences. That really is a couple thing. I read it online." Damon said, not even trying to hide the face he was mocking them. "Anyway, thanks for the help in there Katherine. Your death moves closer every day."
Elena stepped in between the two vampires, "Let's not start fighting. It's my fault she wasn't helping. I got caught up with the kissing and stuff and lost track of the time."
"Oh please. Don't make excuses for her." Damon growled, "Lying is not your best skill Elena, so leave it the pros."
"He's right. You don't have to defend me." Katherine said, holding Elena close just to piss Damon off a little more, "I was pretty sure you could handle yourself, but if by chance you couldn't, I was here to save your sorry ass yet again."
"Don't flatter yourself." Damon laughed, "So, when are you two going to stop this charade?"
"What charade?" Elena asked, more than a little annoyed at Damon's inference, "We are together and you need to accept it. Stefan has, so what's your problem?"
Damon walked right up to Elena, "My problem is that I don't see you hooking up with the bad girl. If you like bad boys, you and I would've been together years ago."
"Maybe I like bad girls." Elena said with a smile, pulling Katherine in for another kiss.
"Oh that's enough." Damon said, turning away from yet another public display of affection between the two women.
After Elena had kissed Katherine for way longer than she had intended, she finally pulled away, still smiling at Damon's reaction, "Are you ever going to grow up?"
"I sure as hell hope not." Damon said proudly, "What are you doing here anyway? You have no reason to be here. You wanted your space remember? Well, stop invading mine."
"I'm not here to talk to you. I'm here to talk to your brother." Elena snapped, "You know, the civilized one? Anyway, why were all these things trying to kill you?"
"Are you saying you care?" Damon asked with his trademark smirk.
"About Stefan yes, you, not so much." Elena said with a cute grin, "So what's going on?"
"Well Elena, Stefan pissed off a lot of people during his time with Klaus and we're dealing with the aftermath of that every day now. Not that you even noticed."
"Stop your jabs at Elena." Katherine said, holding back her urge to smack Damon upside the head, "I told you that you were both in danger, but that's not news."
"Stefan is inside, so be my guest." Damon said, before exiting the room.
Elena and Katherine walked into the living room, stepping over the debris as they made their way towards Stefan. Elena let out a sigh at the destruction around her, "I see life's never boring for you."
"No, I don't think I have to worry about that for awhile." Stefan said with the smallest of smiles.
"I came over to talk about Rebekah. Is she still around?"
Stefan leaned back on the sofa, puzzled by the question, "What could you possibly need to talk to her about?"
"It's a long story, but she actually helped me out a couple weeks ago and I wanted to thank her."
"Really?" Stefan said, his curiosity mildly piqued, "I'm pretty close to her and she never mentioned that."
"I'm sure it wasn't a big deal for her." Elena said, "I didn't listen to Katherine and followed her into some crypt and almost got killed. I'm not sure why Rebekah was there, but she took care of the vampire and helped me find Katherine."
"Still not following why you need to talk to her." Stefan said, his permanently perplexed expression coming in quite handy at times like this, "I presume you thanked her then, so what aren't you telling me?"
Katherine looked at Elena, waited patiently for the signal and once Elena nodded she sat down across from Stefan, put her boots up on the coffee table and smiled, "As you can guess, I'm not thrilled with Elena's need to talk to Rebekah either, but she did save Elena so I'm grateful to her for that. The problem is that I couldn't help but do some digging into Rebekah's life and I found out some things that I didn't like and I don't think you will either."
"Okay, I'm not sure what you think you know, but Rebekah is not a threat to anyone in Mystic Falls. She knows this place is off limits."
"Oh I'm not worried about that, not right now at least, but I am worried that she's been in contact with the vampire Klaus feared more than any other, Vidar 'The Butcher of Gothenburg'. I'm sure you know that's not good for anyone."
Stefan got to his feet and stared down at Katherine, "That can't be true. Vidar was killed hundreds of years ago."
Katherine raised her hands as Stefan repeated the exact same words she had just weeks earlier, "That's exactly what I thought, but I have proof that he's alive and I have proof that he's been in contact with Rebekah for the last two months. We need to find out what she's planning. Just how did things end between you two?"
A simple shrug was about all Stefan could muster, "Not great, but not horrible either. I told her we couldn't be together and she accepted it."
"Right, because she's such a sweet understanding girl." Katherine said with an eye roll.
"Actually she is." Stefan stated calmly, "I think we both realized that you can't recapture the past. Whatever we had 90 years ago was gone. I'm still not going to jump to conclusions. Why don't you let me talk to her. I think I have the best chance of getting information out of her."
Katherine laughed, "Um no. You might've been the best choice before you broke it off with her, but now I believe I'm the best choice to talk to her. I can relate to her pain and be comforting and supportive, all the things you can't do right now."
Stefan growled, "Fine, but leave Elena out of it."
"Don't talk about me as if I'm not here." Elena yelled.
Katherine got up and took Elena by the hand, "He's right though. Rebekah is a powerful vampire and if she blames you even a little for her breakup it wouldn't be that farfetched for her to want some revenge, not to mention that little stabbing incident, so she has plenty of reasons to want to hurt you."
"If she wanted me dead she could've killed me in the crypt." Elena repeated, "She was very nice to me. I don't think she's after me at all. Maybe we should be trying to find just what she wants."
"Agreed." Katherine smiled. She waved at Stefan and escorted Elena out of the familiar room.
Once the two girls had left, Stefan literally flew out of the room, up the stairs and barged into Damon's bedroom.
Damon sat up in his bed, only moderately surprised by the intrusion, "Let me guess, seeing Elena with Katherine has made you weepy and you need a hug?"
"Would you shut up." Stefan said, moving closer to his annoying brother, "They are going after Rebekah and I don't think that's a good idea. They also mentioned Vidar. If he's alive then everyone is in danger."
"Why?" Damon asked, barely opening his eyes, "Vidar has no beef with you, it's me he wants dead and if he wants to kill the stupid twins, what do I care."
Stefan lunged at his brother, grabbing him around the throat, "Elena is not going to die because she knew me. I've brought enough death into her life, so she's going to live a nice long happy life and we're going to make sure it happens."
"How long are you going to babysit that ungrateful little bitch?"
Shaking his head at his brother's poor choice of words, Stefan flew into a rage and tossed him clear across the room. He followed quickly, watching as Damon fell from the wall to the floor before kneeling down on his throat, "I get that you're pissed that your attempts to turn good backfired and Elena still didn't want you, but it's time to get over it. I know you still care about her, so stop pouting and let's figure out what to do now."
Damon pushed Stefan off him and slowly got to his feet, "We can't protect her from Vidar. He makes Klaus look human. Are you sure he's alive? Whose word are we going on here?"
"Katherine said she did some research into Rebekah's life and that's when she found out. I have no idea if it's true, but we can't leave it to chance. The problem with Katherine is that she's alot like you, she's careless and that's going to get Elena killed."
"Okay, I'll look into Vidar, you can go spy on the twins."
"Stop calling them that." Stefan yelled, "It's just…just stop."
"It freaks you out doesn't it?" Damon said with a big smile, "Seriously, how far off am I? Elena is Katherine's doppelganger after all."
"Just find Vidar and try not to die doing it."
"That's not a problem." Damon said confidently, walking out of the room with his usual swagger.
Elena's home.
Elena walked into her home with Katherine by her side and quickly met the disapproving looks of her friends. She turned to Katherine, "Could you wait up in my room for a few minutes. I need to talk to them."
"Whatever you say." Katherine smiled, pulling in Elena for a long passionate kiss. After she had enjoyed Elena's soft lips and inviting mouth longer than she knew was appropriate, she smiled at Jeremy, Caroline, Bonnie and Alaric and then happily walked up the stairs.
Letting out a cute sigh, Elena turned and walked into the living room, "Okay, I know this is difficult for all of you, but you need to accept it. Katherine is part of my life now, so you need to treat her with respect."
Bonnie stepped forward, "Elena, you have to see how strange this is for all of us. It doesn't make sense. I know you and Stefan were having problems and that Rebekah person didn't help, but just when did you have time to be with Katherine?"
"It's a long story, but it doesn't matter how it happened, just that it has." Elena said, knowing her explanation would only make things worse, "I want to be with her and I need all of you to support me. I can't be fighting you all the time."
"I don't want to fight, but you know you can't trust her. She's just like Damon." Jeremy said.
"Maybe that's why she likes her." Caroline said, glaring right at Elena, "You have a thing for the bad boys and I guess that goes for girls now to, but you have to know how this is going to end?"
Elena smiled, "Yes, I believe it's going to end with us being happy forever."
"OMG, how can you spout that crap after what happened with Stefan? Didn't you learn a thing from that?" Caroline yelled.
Elena squeezed her hands together, doing her best not to show emotion, "That was different. Stefan had a lot of things he wasn't dealing with. I believe deep down he wants to be a ripper more than he wants to be in love. He tried denying it, but it just made him miserable. I fell for the Stefan that was a lie. I accept that, but I know all about Katherine. All the bad that goes with the good and I still can't stop thinking about her."
"Question?" Caroline asked, raising her hand as if she were in school, "Why not just hook with Damon?"
"Well Caroline, I don't feel the same way about him, besides I don't trust him." Elena said. The minute the words exited her lips, she saw the whole room gasping at her words, "Okay, I know that might sound strange considering how often Katherine has lied to us, but she is different than Damon in many ways. I believe she's much more open about her feelings. I think Damon loved Katherine and he was projecting that onto me. Katherine doesn't love him and I don't love him. I don't want him dead, but I don't see him that way."
"If I may say something here." Alaric said as he stepped forward, "I don't want to tell you what to do, but I have to wonder how Katherine could break through your defenses so quickly. I'm sure you're going to be offended by this, but are you sure she hasn't compelled you?"
"I'm positive. I still have the necklace. I can't be compelled." Elena said, holding it up for everyone to see, "Is it really that horrible for you guys to believe that I fell in love with Katherine? You guys haven't seen the other side of her. Just like most of you never saw the other side of Damon. They both have good inside them. They just don't show it very often."
Alaric nodded, "Yes, I believe that even Katherine has some good in her, but I don't trust her at all. I didn't trust Damon either in the beginning, but he earned my trust over time. Katherine has done nothing but lie and manipulate all of us, so you can't expect us just to forget that."
As she looked at the faces of all he friends staring at her like she was crazy, Elena finally got a sense of what Katherine must feel every time she walked into the room, like the enemy. She steadied herself for a moment before replying as calmly as she could, "You have no reason to fear her. She would never hurt anyone I care about. She knows that."
"She's a powerful vampire, who is prone to impulsive displays of violence. She has a temper that makes Damon look like a teddy bear, so I'm sorry Elena, but I'm not going to take your word that Katherine is harmless." Alaric added, not holding back anything.
Knowing she was backed into a corner, Elena let out a deep sigh, "Okay, I suppose that is asking too much, but I hope you all come to see that Katherine loves me and that's all that really matters in the end."
"Are you sure she's even capable of love?" Jeremy asked bluntly.
"Yes, I know she is. I know she loves me. Anyway, all I ask is that you treat her nicely when she's here. Can I count all of you to do that for me?" Elena asked. One by one each of her friends nodded their agreement, "Great. Well, I'm going to go upstairs to get Katherine because there's something we need to talk about."
After Elena had gone upstairs and closed her bedroom door, Caroline looked at the others, "Can we have her legally committed?"
Alaric smiled, "I'm not sure that's the best idea."
"I'm with Caroline. I've never seen Elena act like this." Jeremy nodded in agreement, "Well, maybe when she first met Stefan, but at least he was trying to be good. Katherine doesn't even pretend that she's changed, so what the hell is going on here? What happened between those two in the last few months?"
"Obviously they fell in love." Bonnie said, "I know we don't like it, but if she wasn't compelled, then we have to believe she's telling the truth. She loves Katherine. I don't know how or why it happened, but we know from experience that when you fight Elena on love, you're just pushing her to be with that person even more. Person or vampire as the case may be."
Caroline stepped forward, "Okay, we know that Klaus is gone for now but is not done with Stefan and we know Rebekah was dumped by Stefan, betrayed be Elena and lied to by Klaus, so she's hardly in a good mood, plus we know Stefan is back to his old ways of killing again, while Damon's attempts to 'go good' got him nowhere, so is he back to his old ways? Add Katherine to the mix and we have five very dangerous vampires living in or around Mystic Falls. I can't imagine any of them being happy with Elena or Katherine, so do you think that's what she wants to talk us about?"
"No, it's something much worse." Elena said as she walked into the room with Katherine by her side again, "There may be an even bigger threat than those five vampires out there."
"His name is Vidar" Katherine said, stepping up and addressing the room, "He is an original vampire who was believed dead for the last 100 years, but I have reason to believe he's alive. I don't know what his intentions are, but I do know that the Salvatore brothers were on his hit list when he was alive. If he comes after them, then everyone in Mystic Falls is in danger. He shows no mercy to anyone. Not women, not children, not cute little animals, he will kill every living thing in his path."
"Isn't that great." Caroline said as she glared at Katherine, "Why am I guessing that you have a history with this Vidar person to?"
"Well, you'd be right, but it's not the same kind that Damon and Stefan have with him. He liked me. I was never a threat to him and I never crossed him, so he has no reason to come after me, which means Elena is safe."
Caroline rolled her eyes at Katherine's answer, "We only have your word for that and forgive me if I don't believe you."
"I don't expect you to, but you can ask Damon or Stefan about this and they will tell you the same thing. I never purposely antagonized people like those two did in their prime. I preferred to keep a low profile, that's how I've lived this long." Katherine said with a proud smile.
"Goody for you, but what are we going to do about this?" Caroline asked.
"First, we are going to talk to Rebekah." Elena said, holding Katherine tightly, "It seems like she's had contact with Vidar and we need to know why."
"Wait a minute. You're not going with Katherine." Bonnie said, shaking her head in disbelief, "That's suicide. Rebekah hates you. She blames you for Stefan turning her down."
"Yes, she was upset, but when she learned of Klaus' lies, manipulation and the fact he killed their mother, I think something inside her changed." Elena explained, "She was free of his control. She didn't have to be angry all the time. We talked after and she could've killed me. She finally accepted that she and Stefan just weren't meant to be."
"Fine, but we're coming with you." Bonnie said as her friends all stepped in beside her.
"This is getting way too complicated for my liking. The truth is I didn't think it was a good idea for you to go in the first place, so I will do this myself." Katherine said, pulling away from Elena and walking towards the front door.
Elena rushed after Katherine, catching her just as she'd stepped outside, "What is going on? Why do you always change around other people? They aren't bad people you know. They just want to help."
"Elena, I know you care about them and that's great, but they have no clue what they're doing. They are amateurs and Rebekah is a very dangerous vampire and one mistake means you're dead. It's hard enough worrying about you, but I can't deal with the added pressure of being responsible for your idiot friends safety."
"Idiot friends?" Elena asked with a mystified head shake, "You need to stop doing that."
Katherine tried to hold in her smile, "Okay, what would you like me to call them? Annoying friends? Well meaning but inept friends? Busy body friends? What?"
"How about just my friends? That's simple. You can't go wrong with that." Elena smiled. As Katherine groaned at the thought, Elena put her arms around her waist and gave her a soft kiss on the lips, "Things will go so much smoother for everyone if we can make an effort here."
"I'll try, but keep them away from me, because none of them like me and I don't trust Bonnie or Caroline one bit. They will be looking for any opportunity to get rid of me, so I can't let my guard down. I'm sorry. I'll be civilized, but I'm never going to be friends with them. I hope you can accept that."
"Well, I'm not going to push it right now, but I believe in time you can get along with my friends. Anyway, I want you to take someone with you, so you can take Bonnie or Caroline or even Alaric, since he knows what he's doing. I'm not letting you go alone."
"Normally I'd be annoyed by such a request, but you're just too adorable to say no to." Katherine said, happily kissing Elena's inviting lips yet again. After enjoying another long, but slow kiss, Katherine pulled back a step, "Okay, I pick Alaric. I know he's smart enough not to try anything with me."
"Okay, I'll let him know." Elena said with a nod. She smiled and walked back inside to her friends, walking right up to Alaric, "I'd like you to go with her. But please do not try anything stupid. Just back her up and everything will be fine."
"I have no problem going with her." Alaric said calmly.
"Wait." Caroline yelled. She walked up to Elena still shaking her head, "Let me or Bonnie go with them to. The more the better."
"No, I think in this case less is better. Rebekah does have a temper and I think Alaric has the right temperament to deal with her." Elena explained.
"Oh that's nice. So I guess we're just emotional girls, is that it?" Caroline asked, not even trying to hide her anger.
"I'm not saying it's bad, but each situation is different. Just let it go please."
Bonnie and Caroline held their tongues, while Alaric grabbed his coat, walked outside and hopped into Katherine's car.
End of Chapter 1.