So this is EFM only written what I hope is a hell of a lot better now ;) Enjoy, you will need to read this chapter even though most of it is the same cos theres a very important bit that will be very important throughout the whole thing ;) Enjoy :)

As much as I would like to, I don't own vampire diaries, however I DO own my character and my ideas ;)

I turned to face him. He was wearing a suit as always but he also held a cup of coffee in his hand, or at least I thought it was coffee. He had explained to me how coffee warmed up vampire bodies so that when they came into contact with humans, they didn't feel horribly cold.

"Vampire program," I answered as I turned back to the screen.

Elijah sat down next to me and sighed as the vampire on the screen laughed and two fangs appeared replacing his canines.

"Why do you watch these things?" Elijah asked me as he gestured to the TV.

"It's funny to see what people think of vampires," I replied.

Elijah raised one eyebrow before his phone rang. I reached for the control and muted the TV. Elijah answered.

"Hello Charles … Rose Marie. Well that is a surprise," he smiled. Elijah got a piece of paper and scribbled down something. "Tell her I got the message." Then Elijah hung up.

I knew that Charles was one of Elijah's contacts but I had no idea who Rose Marie was. But she had the same last name as my first name so that was cool.

"Who's Rose Marie?" I asked curiously.

"I met her a few hundred years ago although she made an enemy of my brother by assisting Miss, Katerina Patrova. She's been running from us since then. We're going to pay her a visit," Elijah explained to me.

"A long journey or a short journey?" I asked.

"Very long," Elijah replied.

"Well this is going to be fun," I muttered sarcastically. "I'm getting my bag," I said as I ran up to my room and grabbed my 'going away but I have no idea how long for' bag.

It contained a few spare changes of clothes, bathroom essentials, iPod, headphones, iPod charger, phone, phone charger, my sketchbooks that I had gathered over the years and my pencils which was actually all I owned. The thing about this bag was that it was tiny. Elijah had had my bag enchanted by a witch so that it was bigger on the inside and so that it hardly weighed anything at all.

I smiled at Elijah as I stepped out of the front door. He locked it and left the key under the mat.

"You're not taking it with you?" I asked.

"No, I think it's about time we moved," Elijah said as he held his own enchanted bag. His was like a mini suitcase.

"Again?" I asked rather surprised.

"Well, I think Rose may have found something very interesting," Elijah smiled.

I hopped into Elijah's black car and he drove off. I got out my iPod and listened to songs for hours before we pulled in to get some dinner.

We got some sandwiches and sat in the car with them. I also got a hot chocolate whilst Elijah got a coffee. Then Elijah rang somebody about selling the house which didn't take long considering it was pretty much a mansion.

It was dark outside when Elijah began to drive again and I leant my head against the window before falling asleep.

I first met Elijah in 1839 when I belonged to a small gang of pickpockets in London. Recently we hadn't been getting hardly any money so i supidly had tried to pickpocket Elijah, he had bitten me and somehow managed to trigger some kind of gene that made me immortal and made me able to change shape into any dog related animal I wanted. Elijah spent six months with me, he helped me control my transformations, and then he freed me. I wandered through states and countries, keeping in contact with Elijah the whole time. In 1990 I returned to America and Elijah found me. We had been staying together since then.

When I woke, I was in hotel bed. The bed was lovely and spacious. I got up and had a shower. Then I got dressed with some of the clothes from my bag.

I jumped when the hotel phone rang before reaching over the bed to answer it with one hand whilst brushing my knotty hair with my other hand.

"Hello?" I asked. There was silence for a second. "Hello?" I repeated.

"Maria Peyton."

I slammed the phone back onto the receiver and stared for a moment. Nobody knew my second name, or my proper first name, nobody, not even Elijah. Anybody who had would be long dead and buried by now. How did somebody know a name that I hadn't used since I was in the gang of pickpockets? It was probably Elijah playing a prank on me. Maybe I had talked about my surname in my sleep or something. Yeah, that was it. There was no other explanation.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by a knock at the door. Grabbing my hoodie I made my way towards the door.

"Who is it?" I asked cautiously.

"Who do you think?" Elijah asked from the other side of the door.

"I have no idea," I murmured as I opened the door. "Oh it's Elijah, I would have never guessed," I smiled at him.

"Your hair is wet," Elijah murmured.

"No shit Sherlock," I answered. "I had a shower."

Elijah reached forward and touched my hair. There was a hiss and he pulled his hand back away from my hair. I frowned.

"Vervain," He muttered. "The water supply had vervain in it."

"Why?" I asked.

"Well obviously somebody around here is a bit worried that there are vampires in town but it doesn't concern us, we'll leave now," Elijah said.

"Okay," I smiled as I grabbed my bag which I had found on the side and followed him out to the car. "Can't we have breakfast first?" I asked.

"Fine," Elijah muttered. We walked into the hotel breakfast room and I got myself a hot chocolate and a couple of pieces of toast. Elijah didn't eat anything and just got himself a cup of coffee. We sat down at a table and sighed.

"How long have we got left in the car?" I asked.

"A few hours," Elijah answered.

"Oh fun," I muttered.

We drove for hours and eventually I got so bored that I actually fell asleep even after a good night's rest.

I woke when the car stopped. I looked around to see that we were in the middle of nowhere. There was a massive house in front of us only it looked like it was falling to pieces. I sighed.

"Am I coming in?" I asked Elijah.

"If you want to," Elijah answered.

"Well I would like to meet this runaway that has eluded you for so long," I smiled.

"Come on then," Elijah sighed with a smile.

We got out of the car and walked over to the door which had paint peeling off it slowly and ivy begining to grow up it. Elijah knocked and waited for a couple of moments. I couldn't hear anyone inside but if there was anyone in there Elijah probably could considering he had super vampire hearing. He slowly reached for the handle of the door and pushed it open purposefully but very slowly as if creating a dramatic entrance. I realised that the vampires inside probably wouldn't be daylight resistant and have daylight rings like Elijah's closest friends.

Daylight rings were rare among vampires as you had to get a witch to create them ... not many vampires were friends with witches considering they could make vampires and werewolves feel like their brains were sizzling, and therefore there weren't many daylight rings around.

"Rose Mary," Elijah said to a woman who stood in the shadows of the house. She defiantly wasn't daylight resistant. "Is there somewhere we can talk?" he asked. The female vampire sighed.

"Yes, in here." She said. "You'll have to forgive the house," Rose said.

"Oh no, what's a little dirt, I completely understand," Elijah replied forgivingly.

Wow, he was being very nice so far considering he hadn't ripped her heart right out of her chest yet. That was one of Elijah's specialties, ripping out hearts. We walked in and closed the door behind us, blocking the sunlight. Rose stepped forward. We followed her into a small room that was just as tatty as outside the door, there was a chair that looked like a cats scratching post and the wall paper on the walls was beginning to peel off just like the paint on the front door. I stood next to Elijah.

"So tell me, what gives you the courage to call me?" Elijah asked casually.

He was right; it did take a hell of a lot of courage to call an original vampire, especially when you were a runaway. Even if you weren't a runaway, you could still die from trying to get in touch with an original. I nearly died and i wasnt even trying to get in touch with an original.

"I wanted my freedom, I'm tired of running. Are you in a position to grant me that?" she asked.

I raised an eyebrow at her but she was focused on Elijah.

"I have complete authority to grant pardon to you and your little pet, what is him name these days?" Elijah asked. "Trevor," he said remembering. He then continued, "If I so see fit."

"Katerina Patrova?" Rose asked.

Now that was interesting. The amount of times that I had heard that story was countless. Well it was actually quite a good story ... except for the ending.

"I'm listening," Elijah said as he took a seat. I leaned against the chair.

"She didn't burn in the church in 1864," Rose continued.

"Continue," Elijah instructed.

"She survived," Rose said.

Well if she didn't burn in the church then she sure as hell survived. Where was she? Did Rose have her?

"Where is she?" Elijah asked mirroring my thoughts.

"You don't seem surprised by this," Rose noted.

I looked at Elijah and knew that she had a point. He didn't look very surprised, or sound very surprised.

"Well, when you called me and invited me into the armpit of civilisation, which is a mere three hours from the town we know as Mystic Falls, I summarised that it had everything to do with Katerina," Elijah explained. That made sense. "Do you have her in your position?" Elijah continued.

"No, I have better," Rose answered.

What? There's no such thing as better than 'Katerina Patrova the only doppelganger'. What did she think was better?

"I have her doppelganger," Rose said.

What? Vampires can't procreate and she was the last in her line.

"That's impossible," Elijah said shaking his head. "Her family line ended with her, I know that for a fact."

"The facts are wrong," Rose answered boldly.

I shifted the weight in my feet feeling uneasy, Elijah wasn't much of a gentleman when it came to rudeness. She was going to have to watch her tongue if she really wanted her freedom and her heart not ripped from her chest; it could be gone in less than a second if he wanted it to be.

"Well, show her to me," Elijah said getting up from his chair.

"Elijah, you are a man of honour," Rose said. That was true. "You're to be trusted. But I want to hear you say it again."

"You have my word that I will pardon you," Elijah said.

I did however notice that he didn't say that he was going to pardon Trevor or whatever his name was, I think it was Trevor, I wasn't certain though.

"Follow me," she said.

We followed her out of the room and through a hallway, which also had wallpaper literally falling off the wall, before we arrived at a kind of balcony looking down at a small hall-like room. Down in the centre of the hall was a man dressed in black and a girl standing in front of a random sofa ... need i say that everything in this room was also falling apart.

The girl looked really stressed out and she turned around and stared at Elijah. She had the kind of brown hair that was quite drak in the dark but i imagined in the light it would be lighter. I couldn't see her eyes from where i was but i guessed that because she had brown haid=r she'd probably have brown eyes but then again i could be wrong ... i was usually wrong about a lot of things. I had never seen Katerina Patrova so it was up to Elijah to decide if she was her doppelganger or not.

Elijah then disappeared from next to me using his super-speed. He appeared in front of the girl msking her jump a step backwards. He leant down and sniffed her neck obviously to check whether she was human or not and i tried not to laugh. I wondered if she knew anythign about vampires or not, if she didn't then this would be seriously awkward ... if she did it would still be awkward.

"Human, it's impossible," I heard him murmur. "Hello there," he said to the girl.

Well that's not going to scare her, is it idiot! Or maybe he was trying to scare her. Honestly I had no idea what went on in that original's head.

"Well, we have a long journey ahead of us, we should be going," Elijah said.

Where would we even be going? Elijah had sold the house.

"Please don't let him take me," the girl begged to Rose.

"One last piece of business then we're done," Elijah said to the girl.

"I've waited to long for this day Elijah," said the man in black.

I assumed that he was Trevor. He should shut up or he would make it a hell of a lot worse than it already was.

"I'm truly very sorry," Trevor said looking at the ground.

"Oh no, your apology is not necessary," Elijah said.

Elijah was going to kill him. I could tell as he walked around Trevor in a circle.

"Yes, yes, it is," Trevor replied.

Shut up! You're only going to make it worse for yourself! I mentally screamed at him through my head at him although he wouldn't be able to hear me unless i suddenly became telepathic ... that would be cool.

"You trusted me with Katerina … and I failed you," he said.

I sighed impatiently.

"Oh, yes you are the guilty one, and rose aided you because she was loyal to you. That I honour. Where was your loyalty?" Elijah asked facing him.

Rose suddenly became very nervous, perhaps now realising that he had only said that he was only going to free her and not Trevor.

"I beg your forgiveness," Trevor said.

"So granted," Elijah said.

Trevor had just enough time to give a shaky smile before Elijah hit his head so hard that it came off. Rose gasped out in shock and held onto the banister of the steps leading down from the balcony for support. I shuddered at the blood and the read that rolled along the floor. I still wasn't used to the blood.

"You-!" Rose started but was interrupted as she began to walk towards Elijah.

Her attention turned to me. SHIT! Elijah seemed to notice and a second later he was in front of me and rose was centimeters in front of him.

"Don't, Rose…" Elijah warned. "Now that you're free."

Rose then broke down in tears. I let out a shaky sigh of relief.

"Come," Elijah said holding out his hand to the girl who was trembling slightly.

"No, what about the moonstone?" she said incredibly quickly.

I frowned and stared at the girl. She knew about the moonstone? Did she know where it was? Could she take us to it? If she kknew about that then she definatly knew about vampires.

"What do you know about the moonstone?" Elijah asked.

"I know that you need it and I know where it is," she replied.

She shouldn't dodge around the question when talking to an original.

"Yes," Elijah said.

"And I can help you get it," she said.

I sniggered. Originals never except help from humans when it is offered to them. They never wanted to appear that desperate.

"Tell me where it is," Elijah instructed.

"It doesn't work that way," the girl replied.

I raised an eyebrow at her. She had some nerve.

"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah asked.

I could hear the amusement in his voice. He turned and had a quick millisecond glance at me to make sure that Rose hadn't ripped my head off before he looked at Rose.

"It's the first I've heard of it," Rose clarified.

Elijah looked at her. The thing about originals is that if they concentrate hard enough, they know whether a human is on vervain.

"What is this vervain doing around your neck?" Elijah asked as he snatched it from her neck and threw it to the side of the room. Elijah then grabbed her head and forced her to look at him. "Tell me where the moonstone is," he said using his compulsion.

"In the tomb underneath the church ruins," she answered with no emotion in her voice. She almost sounded like a robot.

"What is it doing there?" Elijah asked.

"It's with Katherine," she answered.

I guessed that Katherine was another name for Katerina Patrova.

"Interesting," Elijah muttered.

At that moment glass shattering could be heard upstairs. I looked to Rose, she was still there. Who else was here?

"What is that?" Elijah asked Rose.

"I don't know," Rose answered.

"Who else is in this house?" Elijah said.

"I don't know," Rose repeated firmly.

Elijah grabbed the girl harshly and made her walk in front of him.

"Move!" Elijah ordered.

Rose and I quickly followed them down the hallway to the front doot where we stopped and stood, inbetween the staircase and the door. We stood there for a second before a vampire ran past us at top vampire speed making it impossible for us to see him properly.

Elijah pushed the girl to Rose and then stood ready to take on whoever it was. I stood next to the two girls getting ready to shift if I had to protect myself. The vampire ran past us again. He was teasing us.

"Rose," Elijah said giving her a final chance to tell him who was in the house.

"I don't know who it is," Rose answered.

She sounded honest but sometimes the people who sound honest aren't. I had learnt that the hard way. The vampire ran past us again. Then there was a voice from the top of the stairs.

"Up here," it said.

Using his vampire speed, Elijah ran half way up the stairs before stopping to listen. I heard the old wooden stairs creek with the effort of holding someone when they probably hadn't held anyone for years.

"Down here," said another voice from around us.

I spun around in a circle holding back a growl as i attempted to catch a glimpse of the vampire. Elijah turned to face us, thats when I heard a weapon fire. I looked up to Elijah and felt my stomach churn, Elijah had a stake in his hand. Like literally through his hand.

Suddenly I felt a hand over my mouth and then I was being pressed up against a wall. I was facing a man with brownish hair and foresty green eyes. He had the girl as well but he didn't hold her.

"Excuse me!" Elijah shouted. "To Whom It May Concern, you're making a great mistake if you think you can beat me! You can't!"

I growled into the man's hand and he seemed surprised.

"You hear that! I repeat," Elijah shouted and I heard something break. "You cannot beat me! So I want the girls on the count of three or heads will roll," Elijah announced and I knew he meant literally. "Do we understand each other?"

The vampire holding me handed the girl something and whispered 'go' to her. I had no idea what it was but I struggled under the vampire's grip. I knew whatever the girl had would probably hurt Elijah. It struggled more, trying in some way to free myself.

"I'll come with you," I heard the girl say. Don't fall for it Elijah! "Just please don't hurt my friends," she said. Don't do it Elijah! "They just wanted to help me out," she said. Please don't fall for it!

"What game are you playing with me?" Elijah asked her.

I mentally sighed with relief, he hadn't fallen for it. Then I heard a small bang and Elijah shout out in pain. No! I struggled under the vampire's grip. No! I wanted to help him! The vampire grabbed that looked like a mini-stake. He then stabbed my shirt into the wall and grabbed what looked like a gun.

"ELIJAH RUN!" I screamed as I heard the gun firing.

I had to get lose! The vampire was so strong that the stake was practically completely in the wall along with my t-shirt. Damn! I then heard a huge crash that echoed throughout the whole house. I lifted my feet off the floor, forcing the stake to take all my weight. the shoulder of my shirt ripped and I fell to the floor but i didn't care, i got up and ran to help Elijah. I ran down the stairs hearing Elijah shout in pain again. I got halfway down the stairs and stopped. They had staked Elijah!

I stood frozen there. The shock of seeing him like that froze me. As Rose disappeared, I heard the girl run past me. She jumped into the arms of man that had staked my shirt against the wall.

Elijah would be fine in a few hours. I would wait here until he was fine. The other vampire who stood next to the girl and the brown-haired vampire looked up at me. He had black hair and i felt an urge to change but i held it back. Suddenly he appeared next to me no doubt using vampire speed and it took everythign in me to stop myself from shifting into a wolf right then. He grabbed my arm.

"No! Leave me alone!" I shouted at him.

"Who are you?" the dark-haired vampire asked me.

I didn't answer.

"Who are you?" he said compelling me.

"Only Elijah's compulsion works on me," I said through gritted teeth.

"Answer me!" he ordered.

I said nothing.

"You're coming with us," the brown-haired vampire said.

The dark-haired vampire took a tighter grip on me and dragged me out of the house, literally kicking and screaming.

The car journey was silent. I stared out of the window feeling ... very pissed off. But I smiled when I thought about how pissed off Elijah would be when he woke up. I just had to remember not to say anything about Elijah, his family or about the curses until Elijah came to get me.

"So what happened Elena?" asked the brown-haired vampire whose name was Stephan.

"Well at the party I was getting into my car and someone came up behind me and made me pass out with somethign on a cloth." Chlorophil perhaps? "When i woke up i was in that house and then that Elijah dude came and wanted me to go with me," Elena said from the passenger seat.

The black-haired vampire whose name was Damon decided that I was too dangerous and so Elena would sit next to Stephan who was driving and he would sit next to me. I sighed. This Elena girl had forgotten to mention that a vampire got his head chopped off by Elijah's hand, how had she forgotten that? I sighed again and looked out of the window for the rest of the journey. Later on Elena told them that rose had told her about the 'sun and moon' curse. They obviously didn't know that the 'sun and moon' curse was fake.

The two vampires dropped Elena off at her house, Stephan vampire stayed there too. And then Damon drove me somewhere else.

Their house, which was where they had taken me, was massive. 'The Salvatore Boarding House' was what Damon had said. I made a mental note to remember that name and text it to Elijah when I was alone.

I sat on their couch and hugged my knees. While Damon helped himself to a drink, I quietly got out my phone and texted Elijah.

'Mystic Falls, Salvatore Boarding House – M'

I quickly shoved my phone in my bag when I heard footsteps. Stephan entered the room.

"Where's Elena?" Damon asked.

"She's home," Stephan answered.

"Any you're here why?" Damon asked.

"Because she wanted to be with Jeremy," Stephan said like it was obvious.

How long would it take for Elijah to get here? It had taken us an hour to get here so in two hours Elijah would be awake, but then he'd need to feed and it would take another hour for him to get here so I was looking at four hours. That wasn't too bad.

"Here," Damon said to Stephan as he handed him a glass of whatever it was.

"Listen, what Rose told Elena about the curse…" Stephan didn't finish.

I finished it in my head though '… was fake and Elena was going to die in some ritual thing with Klaus whose Elijah's cursed brother.'

"I know, we'll keep her safe," Damon said as he poured himself another drink.

"Good luck with that," I murmured under my breath.

They heard it but they didn't say anything.

"You know the only way we're going to be able to do that is if we're not fighting each other," Stephan pointed out.

You're gonna die anyway, I thought to myself.

"We let Katherine come between us," Stephan continued.

Whoa! What did they know about Katerina that could be of interest? Did they know where she was?

"We let that happen with Elena, we're not going to be able to protect her," Stephan said.

You won't be able to protect her anyway. Nothing will stop Klaus from breaking his curse, I thought.

"Yes Stephan. I've heard it all before," Damon said as he finished his drink and walked off.

"Hey," Stephan said.

"What?" Damon answered.

"I'm sorry," Stephan said.

What was Stephan sorry for? What had he done?

"About what?" Damon asked.

"Being the guy who made you turn 145 years ago," Stephan explained.

There was seriously something wrong with these two brothers. Most vampires loved the day that they were turned. They say that it was the best day of their lives. Damon looked like he was enjoying vampire life. Surely they would have gotten over something that happened 145 years ago?

"Enough Stephan, it's late. No need to rehash that," Damon answered.

"You know what? I've never said it out loud. I guess I just needed to say it and you need to hear it. I'm sorry. What I did was selfish. I didn't want to be alone. I guess I just needed my brother," Stephan said.

Had Damon really been that reluctant to turn? Hmm. 145 years ago? Haha, i was older than them ... was that good or bad?

Stephan walked away with that.

"Come on. You're sleeping somewhere else," Damon said to me.

Reluctantly I got up off the couch and followed Damon up some stairs. He then led me to a room. I walked in and I heard him lock the door behind me. Well that was friendly, i was pretty sure most people didn't get locked in rooms at night ... although if he hand't locked it i would've definatly made a run for it so i guess that was kinda good ... for them. I officially decided that I didn't like Damon.

I sighed and sat down on the bed. I got my phone out and fiddled with it for a few minutes before a new text came in. My phone was on vibrate so hopefully Damon and Stephan wouldn't be able to hear it.

'You're in Mystic Falls? There's been a change of plan. You stay there and find out as much as u can before I come and get you –Elijah'

'WAT! U can't leave me here! They locked me in a bedroom! How am I supposed to find our information when I'm locked in a bedroom!'

I waited furiously for his reply, debating throwing my phone at the wall hard enough to break it, the phone not the wall. I wasn't strong enough to break a wall by throwing a phone at it.

'Gain their trust. I need to do some jobs. I'll pic you up when I get the chance, End of argument. –Elijah'

'I hate u!'

I sighed deeply and got out my iPod and sketchbook. I began to draw when another text came through.

'Talk to me like that and I might leave you there –Elijah'

'I love u so much, thx for temporarily dying, leaving me to get my favourite shirt ripped, get kidnapped and locked in a room xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

'That's more like it :) –Elijah'

I sighed and put away my sketchbook, pencils and phone before curling up under the duvet on the bed and swiftly falling asleep.

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