Title: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Author: carolinesboobs
Rating: K
Disclaimer: Don't own anything, don't sue me.
Summary: Drabble; Tatia scares her. Katherine scares her. The mirror scares her./"I'm not like you" she once said.
AN: I have Elena issues, but this isn't meant to make her seem like a bad person or anything. Just a teenage girl with a fear of repeating her ancestors' mistakes and the realization that she already has.
We have not met our forgotten ancestors, but we begin to sense their presence in the dark. We recognize their shadows here and there. They were once as real as we are. We would not be here if not for them. Our natures and theirs are indissolubly linked despite the aeons that may separate us. The key to who we are is waiting in those shadows.
-Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Elena is scared.
Her life is in danger at least once a week. Her family and friends have died and continue to suffer because she was born who she is. Her world is full of vampires, werewolves, and witches walking amongst unknowing humans.
This is not what scares her.
Tatia scares her. Katherine scares her. The mirror scares her.
She lives in constant fear.
Doppelgangers have always been considered a negative omen. Harbingers of death. This, she could understand and accept. What she cannot accept is the the hurt they cause and the brothers they tear apart.
Tatia unknowingly seduced Klaus and Elijah. She did not love them, either of them, but they loved her.
Katherine purposefully seduced Damon and Stefan. Two brothers who loved each other more than anyone in the world and yet they spent a century apart because of the woman wearing her face.
Elena is scared.
Scared because she once said "I'm not like you" to her identical centuries older twin and yet here she is in love with both brothers. Someone is going to get hurt, and it won't be her. She knows this, yet she can't find it in her to let them both go.
She is selfish.
She is scared.
She is the doppelganger.