Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries characters except the ones I created in the fanfic, namely Scarlett Stone, Nicholas Stone, Susan Stone, Steve Stone, Serena (Ayanna's younger sister), Suzanne Stone and all other characters that we might meet along the way.

Alert! I'm a first-time writer when it comes to fanfics. I have written my own stories before but not a single fanfic so please give me constructive criticism on the reviews, you can even PM me [I'll give a shout out to whoever PMs me first and to my first reviewer ;)] I open to any ideas or contributions anyone wants to give. Thank for taking the time to read this.

Setting: This takes place after season 3's finale "The Departed". This is my own take on season 4(just part of it, but I might decide to make the whole story into a full season story if there are fans who like it and still want more).

Chapter 1

"Where am I? Stefan?" Elena called out in the cold hospital morgue.

"Elena, I'm so sorry-'' Stefan started but was cut off by Damon and Dr. Meredith Fell entering the morgue.

"Oh my gosh. Elena?" Damon's blue eyes were filled with anger and sorrow while Meredith looked on quietly.

"Damon, Meredith. Okay, what's going on? Am I a ghost? But then how can you all see me? And I'm wet. Oh no, Matt, Wickery Bridge and the car. Rebekah." Elena said, speaking more to herself than the others.

"Matt is fine, Elena. Stefan got there in time." Meredith assured Elena.

"But there was only enough time to save one of us, so why am I still alive? And what is that copper smell?" Elena said.

"Do you want to do the honours, brother, or should I?" Damon said with as much poison as he could.

"Elena, um. You're in transition, Elena." As the words came out, Stefan felt a sharp pain inside him, pain he had tried so hard to suppress for months.

"That's impossible; I don't remember having any vampire blood in my system." Elena panicked at the thought of becoming something she didn't want to be, a vampire, another Katherine, another Petrova doppelganger who life has ended because of Klaus.

"It's my fault, Elena. When Jeremy brought you in, your injuries were more serious than we thought. There was internal bleeding within your skull, on the brain, so I gave you vampire blood to heal you. I had no idea that you and Matt were going to be in an accident." Meredith explained.

"You had no right!" Elena screamed and vamped towards Meredith but Damon pushed Meredith out of Elena's path and stopped Elena in her tracks.

"Elena, no!" Stefan vamped to Damon's side and quickly went over to Meredith and helped her up, "Get out of here, now." Meredith obeyed Stefan and left after giving Elena an apologetic look.

"Why did you do that? She's responsible for this!" Elena cried.

"Your emotions are heightened and you need blood in your system. But please, Elena, for everyone's sake, don't let this consume you. You are still the Elena that everyone remembers, that Jeremy needs, Caroline and Bonnie are best friends with. The Elena my brother fell for. My friend. Don't become like the rest of us, Elena, try and remain pure, please." Damon pleaded with Elena.

"You compelled me." Elena whispered.

"Damon, what is she talking about? When did you compel her?" Stefan demanded.

"You're the one who let her drown, so you also contributed to her remembering when I compelled her, so you might not be too happy when you hear when and why I compelled. But right now, we have to get Elena out of here and into the boarding house. A hospital is probably the last place you, me or her want to be especially now that she's the new vampire around the block." Damon took control and vamped out of the morgue with Elena in tow and Stefan followed, keeping his eyes trained on Elena and Damon.

Seattle, Washington

"Nicholas, don't ride too far, okay!" Scarlett Stone shouted to her son, Nicholas.

"Let him be, Scarlett. He's curious about the world around him." Susan Stone assured her young daughter.

"Mom, after that little incident at school the other day, I don't want him bumping into another bleeding kids. So, when are you and dad leaving for Alaska?" Scarlett asked as she put lasagne into the oven.

"Tomorrow night." Susan answered as a knock came through the door.

"Don't worry, I'll get it." Steve Stone called out to his wife and daughter in the kitchen and opened the door. "Elijah."

Susan jumped from her stool and joined her husband in the hallway and Scarlett followed.

"Elijah, thank goodness, we haven't heard from you in a while. We were starting to get worried." Susan said as she embraced Elijah.

"Scarlett, we need-'' Elijah began but then Nicholas entered the room and exclaimed, "Uncle Elijah!"

Scarlett smiled as she saw her son's face light up at the sight of his father's brother, his uncle.

"Why don't we all give Elijah some space and let him inside the house, okay." Scarlett suggested.

The group gathered inside the kitchen, all taking a seat at the medium sized island in the kitchen.

"So how long are you staying, Uncle Elijah?" Nicholas asked.

"I really don't know, Nick. I actually came to Seattle to talk to your mother about something that's rather sensitive." Elijah replied then looked up to Scarlett.

"Um, Mom and Dad, could you two look after dinner and Nick, please. Thanks." Scarlett said then she and Elijah walked out of the kitchen into one of the guest rooms upstairs. As they entered the guest room, Elijah and Scarlett sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Nick would really love it if you could stay the night. I'll just change the sheets on the bed." Scarlett said quietly as Elijah shed a tear and she reached out towards him.

"Elijah, what's wrong?" Scarlett asked.

"He's gone, he's really gone. Niklaus…Klaus is dead." Elijah whispered and then Scarlett hugged him as she breathed a sigh of relief and worry as well.

Mystic Falls

"So you did this because you wanted to, Bonnie. Well, welcome to the dark side, sweetheart." Klaus chuckled, occupying Tyler's body.

"Don't belittle me, Klaus. I'm not one of your little puppets." Bonnie told Klaus, "I'm my own person now. I play by my own rules now, nobody else's."

"I admire you. It's good you've decide to follow your own…path." Klaus said.

"What are you going to do now? Leave town?" Bonnie acquired.

"I quite like being inside Tyler and pretending to be him in front of Caroline was fun even though it was heartbreaking for her." Klaus smiled

"You haven't even been in that body for an hour and already you're crossing me. Klaus, you are leaving Mystic Falls and leaving Caroline, Elena and everybody involved alone. Everyone I have protected and care about. I'm in control and I can easily release you from that body." Bonnie smiled sweetly.

"You do realise that the fact that your vampire friends are still alive is going to raise eyebrows among my Original family. How are you going to handle that with me out of town? Rebekah saw me staked and burnt. And if I know my little sister, she will be vengeful, Bonnie." Klaus chuckled. Bonnie's phone then rang and she answered it.

"Bonnie, you need to get to the boarding house now. Something's happened that involves Matt, Elena, Rebekah, a certain Dr. Fell and her medical practices and Wickery Bridge." Damon spoke over the phone.

"Damon, stop with the riddles and tell me what's wrong?" Bonnie asked.

"Just get your witchy ass over here. Elena is in real trouble on a global scale, okay, Bon-Bon. See ya later." Damon hung up.

"Well, you definitely wasted your breathe with that little speech of yours." Klaus grinned.

"Shut up, Klaus. Now leave town or I promise you, I will hurt you." Bonnie said, then she walked out of the Lockwood's old slave's quarters.

Caroline walked into the boarding house with tears falling down her face and Jeremy had just entered the house.

"Caroline, hey, do you know what's going on?" Jeremy asked her as Stefan and Damon walked into the hallway.

"Why are we still here, it's been over an hour and Tyler… I left Tyler in the woods. He was dying and now… now he's gone." Caroline sobbed and the Salvatore brothers exchanged confused looks.

"Klaus told us he sired our bloodline. So we don't know why we're still alive either, Caroline." Stefan said gently.

"The Council knows about us, about everyone." Caroline revealed, "What are we going to do?"

"Great! Alaric even gave them a tell-all about us." Damon snapped.

"Um, we'll figure that out later, but right now we have another bigger problem. Elena-'' Stefan began.

"Elena's dead. Alaric, I saw his ghost. So Elena is really- Elena?" Jeremy was shocked when Elena appeared behind the Salvatore brothers.

"Elena, oh my gosh, we thought something had happened to you." Caroline hugged Elena as tears streamed down her face, "Where's Matt?"

"Wait, you can see her, she's not a ghost?" Jeremy exclaimed.

"Elena… is in transition, Jeremy and Caroline." Stefan told them and just then the sound of a door banging echoed through the hallway.

"What!" Bonnie cried.

Seattle

The Stone family had just finished eating dinner and Scarlett and her mom were busy clearing up, while Steve was getting Nicholas ready for bed.

"So, what is Elijah going to do now that his brother is gone? Are the Originals going to even have a funeral for him?" Susan asked.

"I don't know, Mom, we didn't really get that far and he was exhausted." Scarlett replied.

"Nick won't go to sleep until his mom has sung him his favourite lullaby." Steve said smiling, "He said I sounded like a frog."

Scarlett and Susan started laughing.

"Well, he is right about one thing. Honey, me and your dad have some packing to do, so we have to leave." Susan said as she and her daughter embraced.

"But if anything happens, please call me and your mom, even if it's not life threatening, angel." Steve told his daughter.

"Yes, Dad. Now you two better go have some deer blood in your system and give some of the those mountain lions a run for their money in Alaska." Scarlett gave her dad a hug and then her parents left her home in a blink of an eye.

After getting her son to sleep by singing him his favourite lullaby, Scarlett went down to her basement and got a blood bag out the freezer. She then went into one of the guestrooms where Elijah was sleeping.

She quietly looked at Elijah while he was still in his slumber and wondered how he could possible be a vampire, a monster. Scarlett had stopped herself from thinking of vampires as monsters since Nicholas was born. When Scarlett was born, she was brought up into the world of the supernatural and it had surrounded her all her life. She knew about the good aspects and the bad aspects of the supernatural but she never wanted it gone and she didn't hate it, she actually liked the supernatural aspects in her life. Until Klaus came into her life and her family's life and tore it apart by taking her sister to her grave. The moment that Scarlett lost her sister was the moment Scarlett had loathed and hated all things supernatural especially vampires. But she couldn't hate the supernatural for long because now both her parents were vampires and Scarlett was a part of a supernatural line that went way back up until the 10th century. And then there was Nicholas, probably the only good thing that Klaus has left on this earth. Scarlett never thought she could love this bundle of joy, love and purity so much especially since it was Klaus's creation, his handiwork. But over time she forgave her demons and slowly let the supernatural back into her life again. But she still isn't ready for all it holds because if there is one thing Scarlett has learnt about the supernatural, is that it is full of surprises.

Elijah stirred in his bed and saw Scarlett standing in the doorway with a blood bag in her hand.

"How long have I been asleep?" Elijah asked.

"Not long enough. You still look, um, pooped." Scarlett grinned, giving Elijah the blood bag. Elijah drank from the blood bag, feeling the blood course through his veins and give him renewed strength.

"Thank you." Elijah smiled at Scarlett and put his hand over hers. Suddenly there was a loud crash coming from Nicholas's room.

"Nicholas!" screamed Scarlett and then in a blur she was inside Nicholas's room with Elijah grasping her hand. They looked towards an open window, the source of the cold breeze that was entering the room. Scarlett ran towards her son's bed, tearing the sheets of the bed with an agitation of hands and praying and hoping this was all a nightmare as she called out Nicholas's name over and over again. Elijah stood by the open window looking for any signs of life in the darkness.

"Elijah, someone's taken Nicholas. My son's gone. Oh my gosh!" Scarlett cried hysterically, her pain unbearable as Elijah took her into his arms.

"We'll find him, Scarlett, I promise you." Elijah said as he cradled Scarlett.

Thanks for reading! I'm sure you guys have a lot of questions going around in your heads at the moment. You probably have questions about how Elena will transition and the new characters, mainly Scarlett and her son, Nicholas and her family's relationship with Elijah and the rest of the Originals. Don't worry, all these will be answered as the story continues. If you are really desperate for a little spoiler or logic explanation, simply PM me and I will answer as soon as possibly.