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Pre-Pre Pilot
I never used to believe in the supernatural. Being reborn was not something that happened to real people, it's the thing of stories and movies. Then there I was, reborn as the nearly identical twin of Elena Gilbert. Nearly identical as in where Elena could hold a nice tan, I was always the same fair shade, she was a brunette where I was a blonde, she had brown eyes, and I had vibrant blue ones. Regardless of our small differences, we still had the same facial features as our ancestors Katherine and Tatia. That's right, little Audrey Gilbert remembered her old life, the life where the people in my new life were once just characters I used to watch on TV.
It was hard coping with being born in The Vampire Diaries world. I had been living my whole five years so far, confused as to how I was alive and dealing with the odd feeling that I was forgetting something. Then my Uncle John came to visit and that was when it clicked for me. John, Grayson, Miranda, Jenna, Elena, and Jeremy; they were all names from a show I used to watch.
That was coincidentally when I threw the biggest tantrum ever, I cried for three whole days before I realized I was freaking out my new dad who was also a doctor. I spent those three days hating that I was the younger twin of the perfect Elena Gilbert. I didn't want to be invisible or fall victim to all the 'I did it for Elena' plans. I wanted to be my own person, not a shadow of all the previous doppelgangers. After my major meltdown, I slowly learned to deal with it. Everything was good in my new life. I had decided to pave my own path, screw the timeline. Then Fate had to throw me a curve ball and give me a gift of sorts.
I was eight when I finally realized that I knew things that I shouldn't, and not from my old life watching the show either. I knew what was going to be served for breakfast as soon as I woke up, or I knew what days Aunt Jenna was going to visit before my parents told me. That was when I came to the conclusion that I was a fortune teller of sorts, it reminded me a bit of Alice from Twilight. I knew things, they came to me like a feeling or a whisper in the back of my mind. I would wake up with a bad feeling and then I'd find out someone's pet died. Sometimes I'd get a whisper of 'Aunt Jenna. Sex. Uncle John' and the next time I saw them acting weird together, I knew it was true. I learned to deal with it in time, just like I dealt with being part of a world I once thought was fictional. It was difficult, but I learned to almost deal with it subconsciously. That way I wouldn't go insane, and all the important stuff got through to me
Accepting that I now had a new life here in Mystic Falls came with a lot of planning. I spent my childhood making connections. I made sure the important adults saw me as nothing but a little angel, and I was friendly with people I knew were going to be important for the future.
I also became best friends with the odd pair of Caroline Forbes and Tyler Lockwood, possible future vampire and werewolf. I was always fond of Caroline in the show. When the opportunity arose to become friends, I gladly took it and we were inseparable since.
Tyler was a bit more difficult to become friends with, we mostly saw each other at founding family events when he still thought girls had cooties. That changed when I witnessed his father shouting at him when we were 10, I became his shoulder to lean on and he became my overprotective big brother.
I settled into life in Mystic Falls quite nicely. I had two wonderful best friends, and I was even friends with Bonnie, but she was always closer to Elena. I had a decent relationship with Elena, but it wasn't as close as twins usually are. I suppose me not liking her in the show clouded my judgement of her as my twin. I was closer to Jeremy, I adored my little brother from the moment he was born. Jeremy was my everything, I tried my absolute best to be the most amazing big sister a guy could ask for.
Jenna was more like a big sister to me than an aunt. When she would visit from college she would tell me wild stories and we'd have girly sleepovers in the living room. I even liked Uncle John, I made sure to always give him hugs when he came to visit and to tell him that I loved him often. Elena couldn't stand the man and couldn't understand how I could be around him, but I couldn't exactly tell her the reason I made an effort towards him was because he was our biological father. My knower was telling me that she needed to find out on her own or it would have horrendous results.
I knew when the day just began that it was going to be the day of the accident. I woke up with a horrible feeling, and that's when it hit me that my parents were going to die.
The family had been really good about my sixth sense thing and when I spoke everyone usually took my words into consideration. I tried my absolute hardest to get Elena to stay home, she ignored me saying she had promised the cheer squad she'd make an appearance. I tried making her promise that she wouldn't bug our parent's for a ride home, but she just laughed and said Matt was going to be her ride. What was the point in knowing the future if you couldn't change it! Elena was going to drive me crazy if she continued this selfish course of action.
The entire time Elena was at the party, I was getting updates from Caroline and savoring my last moments with my parents. I made sure Jeremy was bonding with them and having a good time on our last family night. He deserved a final good memory of them happy together. I tried my best to stay clam cool and collected, only my mom saw through it. Pulling me aside to ask if I was alright, I lied and told her I felt a little off but was sure it was nothing.
When they left to go pick up Elena's drunk ass, I stayed home with Jeremy playing video games to pass the time. Making him laugh as much as I possibly could, since I knew he wasn't going to be happy for a while after tonight. When there was a knock on the door, I froze mid game, I knew what awaited us on the other side. I went to answer the door, Jeremy right behind me, and there stood Sheriff Forbes in tears. She told us what happened; our parents were dead, Elena was in the hospital, and Jenna and John were on their way. I stood in the doorway with tears streaming down my face as I pulled a sobbing Jeremy into a hug. We hitched a ride with Sheriff Forbes to the hospital, needing to see actual proof that Elena was actually alive.
The ride to the hospital was a solemn affair, I couldn't stop the waterworks and neither could Jeremy. When we finally arrived we were let straight into Elena's room, and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding when I saw her sleeping peacefully. Both Jeremy and I collapsed into the chairs by her bed, sitting in silence with only the occasional sniffle breaking through. Jenna arrived first, her eyes still red rimmed from crying but trying to be strong for us. She broke out into fresh tears as soon as she had both Jeremy and I in her arms. We collapsed into a pile on the floor and that's how John found us. His eyes were also red and puffy from crying, but he still held me in the tightest hug he could manage while I cried my eyes out. There we stood, a broken Gilbert family and I knew that this was just the beginning.
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