Hey. This is my first Vampire Diaries fanfic. When I first saw Elijah, I fell in love with the character. I'm a sucker for gentlemen. This idea has probably been done before but I wanted to get my own story out there. My OC, Katie, is Elena's twin sister. She is based on singer Cheryl Cole, who I think bares a striking resemblance to Nina Dobrev. Here's some plot info you should know. Elena will NOT become a vampire. I would give out more but it's spoilers.

Summary: Katie Gilbert is Elena's twin sister and doppelganger to Valencia Petrova, who was the twin sister of Katherine. Ever since Katie and Elena found out that vampires and werewolves exist, their lives have dramatically changed. When the twins are kidnapped, their lives take another dramatic turn, especially when Katie meets Elijah.

Katie Gilbert couldn't believe how much had changed in the last few months. Elena had a new boyfriend. It turns out that Stefan and his brother Damon are vampires. She also discovered that she and her sister were doppelgangers. They had met Katherine and ever since she arrived in Mystic Falls, things had went to hell. Katie's best friend, Caroline was now a vampire and she was being tormented by Katherine. She was causing problems in Elena and Stefan's relationship and in the process, her aunt Jenna got hurt. She had caused nothing but trouble and they decided now was the time to do something about it.

During the masquerade ball, they managed to trap Katherine in one of the rooms. Stefan and Damon tried to kill her but whatever damage was done to her was also done to Elena. Bonnie managed to convince Katherine's witch to unlink the two and she assisted with disarming Katherine. Damon locked her in the tomb but the trouble didn't stop there. Katie was heading out to her car when she saw a man grab Elena but before she could do something about it, a cloth was place over her mouth and her world went black.

A while later, in a remote location, a black SUV pulled up beside another car. The driver of the other car got out and approached the SUV. "Where are they?" A British accent spoke.

"In the trunk. I did exactly what you said." The man replied

"Good. Put them in the back."

The other man opened the trunk of his car revealing the unconscious bodies of Elena and Katie. He put Elena in the trunk first then Katie. Once he was done, he approached the window.

"Thank you for your help." The British man said.

"Is there anything else?"

"One more thing. Come closer please." The other man came closer. The driver of the SUV sunk his fangs in the other man's neck and drank his blood. Once he had enough, he let the man's body fall to the ground. He then rolled up his windows and drove off to his destination.

Meanwhile, at the Gilbert house, Jeremy was getting ready for school. "Yo Elena." He said knocking on his sister's door. When he got no reply, he opened her door to discover she wasn't there and it looked like her bed hadn't been slept in. He assumed she had stayed over at Stefan's. He knocked on his other sisters door but she wasn't there either. He assumed she had already left for school.

At school, Jeremy bumped into Stefan. "Elena has to let me know if I'm supposed to cover for her. Jenna's cool with the two of you but you guys are pushing it."

Stefan looked confused. "What are you talking about?"

"Look, I'm glad you guys are back together but if she's gonna stay at your place then…"

"Wait hold on a minute. Elena and I aren't back together."

Now it was Jeremy's turns to be confused. "She didn't stay over at your place last night?"

"No. I saw her at the party but she didn't stay at my place." Stefan replied.

"Her bed hadn't been slept in. I haven't seen Katie either. She wasn't in her room either and Mrs Lockwood said both of their cars were still in her driveway. I thought they'd be here."

Stefan started to get worried. "I'll talk to Damon and see if he knows where they are." He patted Jeremy on the shoulder and walked away.

The black SUV finally reached it's destination. He got out and opened the trunk. Elena was awake but her sister was still unconscious. "Good your awake. Saves me the trouble of making a return trip." He hauled Elena to her feet and carried Katie in his arms. "Move." He instructed Elena.

"What have you done to my sister." She asked as the man laid Katie down on the couch.

"Don't worry. She's fine." He untied Katie then Elena. He noticed the blood on Elena's clothes and his eyes started to change. "You're bleeding. Let me have a taste." He leaned closer to Elena, fangs out but before he could bite her, a woman's voice spoke out.

"Trevor. Control yourself."

Trevor looked at the woman, muttered something about her being a buzz kill and walked away. The woman continued to look at Elena and Katie with surprise written all over her face.

"What do you want with me and my sister?" Elena asked the woman.

"My god, you and your sister look just like the Petrova twins." She said, ignoring Elena's question.

"But we're not. Please, whatever you…" She was cut off by the woman telling her to be quiet. "But I'm not Katherine. My name is Elena Gilbert and this is my sister Katie. You don't have to do this."

"I know who you both are. I told you to be quiet." Elena asked the woman what she wanted. The woman simply back handed her and knocked her unconscious.

Katie finally came back to the land of the living and saw a woman standing in front of her. "Who are you?" Katie asked, afraid of the stranger.

The woman sighed. "My name is Rose and don't ask me anymore questions unless you want to end up like your sister." She said walking out of the room.

Katie noticed her sister lying knocked out next to her. "Oh god Elena." She rushed to her sister's side and made sure she wasn't seriously hurt. She saw no wounds and she held onto her sister until she woke up.

Back in Mystic Falls, Stefan had just finished telling Damon that Elena and Katie where missing. "This has Katherine written all over it."

Damon shot that theory down. "Katherine's in the tomb. I shut her in myself."

"Did you?" Stefan said, approaching his brother.

"Did I what Stefan?"

"I know the hold Katherine has on you."

"She's in the tomb Stefan, believe me. But she did say something just before I shut her in. I thought she was lying, like usual."

Stefan stopped his pacing and turned to his brother. "What did she say?"

Damon looked at his brother. "Elena and Katie are in danger."

"And you didn't ask her to elaborate." Stefan said raising his voice.

"How am I supposed to know she's going to start spouting the truth all of a sudden."

"We have to talk to her. See what she knows."

"No we can't." Damon said. "She isn't going to tell us anything unless we get her out of the tomb and if she gets out she will kill us. It isn't happening Stefan."

"We have to do something Damon." Stefan said walking off.

"This is a bad idea brother."

"It's Elena and Katie. Aren't they your friends." Damon then followed his brother.

Katie could her Rose and Trevor talking. She noticed her sister starting to wake up and held a finger to her mouth, signalling her to be quiet. She was hoping that while Rose and Trevor were talking that they could sneak out. Katie took off her heels, carrying them in her hands and they quietly walked out of the room.

"So you called him?" They heard Trevor ask.

"No I called one of his contacts. You know how this works."

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?"

Katie peeked round the corner and saw Rose walking by in one of the rooms. She signalled for Elena to move quietly. "They say he got the message." Rose responded to Trevor's question.

"Wonderful and what?" They heard him reply.

"So that's it, Trevor. He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."

The twins moved forward. "Look it's not too late. We can leave them here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor pleaded with Rose.

"I'm sick of running."

"Yeah, well running keeps us from dying." Trevor shouted out.

"Look, Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." The floorboards creak under their footsteps, alerting the vampires to their presence. "You two. There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're both tragically wrong. Understand?"

"Who's Elijah?" Katie asked her.

Rose just smirked at her. "He's your worst nightmare." Elena and Katie immediately became scared. They dreaded meeting Elijah.

Stefan had been looking for Bonnie to help get Katherine out of the tomb so he could find out where Elena and Katie where. He found her in the cafeteria at school and explained the situation to her. "I can't undo the tomb spell Stefan, even if I wanted to. The last time it took both me and my grams to do it."

"But I can open the door right and talk to her."

"Yeah but Damon's right. She's not going to tell you anything not without something in return."

"But Bonnie I have to do something. I have no idea who has Elena and Katie. I don't know where they are."

There is a brief moment of silence as Bonnie thinks out her options. "What if there was another way to find them? I could do a locator spell using Jeremy's blood. Since they're blood related I should be able to find them that way."

Stefan agreed. "Great. You find Jeremy and I'll talk to Alaric about weapons and meet me at his classroom."

They went their separate ways and met up a few minutes later. Bonnie gathered candles and Jeremy found a map. "How does this work?" He asked her as she lit the candles.

"I'll use your blood to draw energy for the tracking spell. You're blood related. It'll make the connection stronger."

Stefan then walked in carrying a bag of weapons. "Alaric says we gotta clear out of here in ten minutes. I got weapons. He stocked me up."

"You ready?" Bonnie asked Jeremy. He nodded and she sliced his hand with a knife. Jeremy let his blood drop on the map where Mystic Falls was shown. Bonnie then began chanting. The blood then moved to another destination on the map and stopped. "There. They're both there."

"That's three hundred miles away." Jeremy pointed out.

"Bonnie we need a more exact location."

"That's as close as I can get." She stated.

"We can map it. Aerial view. It'll show us what's around, help us narrow the area."

Stefan walked away from the table. "Perfect. Call me with whatever you find."

"I'm coming with you." Jeremy protested.

"No Jeremy you're going to stay here."

"I'm not gonna sit here. My sisters could be hurt."

"You've got to trust that they're not, Jeremy. Take Bonnie back to your place and I'll call you the minute I find them." Stefan told Jeremy.

"You can't do this alone."

The door opened revealing Damon. "He's not. Let's go."

"You're coming with me?" Stefan asked his older brother.

"It's Elena and Katie." The brothers left the school and Jeremy took Bonnie back to his house.

Elena and Katie were bored just sitting about and decided to find Rose and ask her about Elijah. "Why are we here?" Elena asked her.

"You both keep asking me questions like I'm gonna answer them." Rose told them, while blocking the windows with wood.

"Well answer our questions and we'll stop asking them." Katie told her.

Rose sighed. "Fine. What do you want to know?"

"What do you want with us?" Elena asked.

"I personally want nothing. I'm just a delivery service."

"Delivery to who? Elijah?"

Rose chuckled while moving books. "Two points for the eavesdropper."

"Who is this Elijah guy? Is he a vampire?" Katie asked Rose.

"He's one of THE vampires. The Originals."

"Who's the Originals?"

"Goodness haven't the Salvatores been teaching you vampire history?"

"So you know Stefan and Damon?" Elena asked.

"I know of them." Rose replied. "A hundred years ago, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan." She said, flipping through a random book. "She said he was one of the good ones. More of a sucker for the bad boys though, but I digress.

Katie stepped forward. "You still haven't explained who the Originals are."

Rose closed the book and turned round to face the twins. "Trevor and I have been running for five hundred years. We're tired. We want it over. We're using the pair of you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."

"But why us?" Elena asked.

"Because you're both Petrova doppelgangers. One of you is the key to breaking the curse."

"The sun and the moon curse?"

"You do know your history." Rose then went on to explain that the moonstone binds the curse and the blood of the doppelganger breaks it. By the end of the sacrifice, one of them would be dead.

"If you only need one doppelganger, why did you take both us?" Katie asked the vampire.

"The second doppelganger was created as a fail safe, should anything happen to the other doppelganger. There is also the fact that Valencia Petrova was quite friendly with Elijah."

Katie tensed up at the mention of this. She was Valencia's doppelganger. "How friendly are we talking?" She asked, not really sure if she wanted to know the answer.

Before Rose could answer, Trevor walked in. "Captivity has made them pushy. What do you wanna know, doppelicious?"

"Who are you running from?" Elena asked him.

"The Originals." He replied.

"Yeah. She said that. What does that mean?"

"The first family. The old world." He told her. "Rose and I pissed the off." Rose cleared her throat. "Correction. I pissed them off. Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead." He finished tossing a book at Elena's feet.

"What did you do to annoy them?" Katie asked.

"He made the same mistake countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova."

Katie shook her head. "Why does everything always come back to Katherine."

"I helped her escape her fate and we've been marked for death ever since."

"Which is why we're not going to make the same mistake again." Rose said from the doorway.

Trevor left leaving the twins standing there. They were trying to comprehend what they had just been told. The only thing Katie could think about was what Rose said about Valencia and Elijah. Rose hadn't answered her question about their relationship so she had no idea what to expect when she met Elijah. Katie was broken out of her thoughts by Elena shaking her shoulder. "Come on." She guided them back to the room they woke up in. As Elena sat down, she noticed a piece of paper that wasn't there before. She picked it up and read it. She showed the note to her sister. It explained that Stefan and Damon were on the way. Both girls were relieved to know the Salvatore brothers were coming to their rescue.

A few moments later, Rose came in and started to clean the place up a bit. Trevor rushed in clearly panicking about something. "He's here. This was a mistake."

Elena and Katie stood up after hearing this. Inside they were panicking themselves.

"No. I told you I would get us out of this. Trust me." Rose tried to assure Trevor.

Trevor was not assured. "No. He wants me dead, Rose." He shouted out.

"He wants them more." Rose countered.

Trevor looked like he was having a panic attack. "I can't. You give them to him. He'll have mercy on you but I need to get out of here."

"Hey" Rose said taking Trevor's hands into her own. "What are we?"

Trevor took a few deep breaths to calm down. "We're family, forever."

A door being knocked on could be heard throughout the house. "You're scared." Elena said stating the obvious.

"Stay here with those two and don't make a sound." Rose said and walked away to greet Elijah.

By the time Rose got to the front door, Elijah was already standing there, waiting for her. "Rose Marie. Is there somewhere we can talk?" Elijah asks her.

"Yes in here." She says gesturing to a nearby room. "You have to forgive the house."

"Oh, what's a little dirt. I completely understand." He walks into the room to continue his conversation with Rose following him. "So tell me. What is it that gives you the courage to call me?"

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

"I have complete authority to grant pardon to you and your little pet, what is his name these days? Trevor. If I so see fit." He says sitting down on a nearby chair.

"Katerina Petrova."

The name caught Elijah's attention. "I'm listening."

"She didn't burn in the church in 1864. She survived."

"Where is she?"

"You don't seem surprised by this." Rose stated.

"Oh when you called and invited me into this armpit of civilization, which is a mere three hours from the town we know as Mystic Falls, I surmised that it had everything to do with Katerina. Do you have her in your possession?"

Rose started to feel a little more confident. "No but have better. I have her doppelganger."

Elijah shook his head. "That's impossible. The family line ended with her and my dear Valencia. I know that for fact."

"Well the facts are wrong. I also have Valencia's doppelganger in my possession."

Elijah simple stares at Rose to try and deduce if she's lying. "You better not be lying to me about this Rose Marie."

"I swear to you I'm not."

"Well then show me." Elijah said rising from his chair.

"Elijah, you're a man of honour, you're to be trusted but I wanna hear you say it again."

"You have my word that I will pardon you."

Rose believes him and leads him to where Trevor and the twins are.

Elena was pacing the floor with Katie watching her. They noticed that Rose had appeared and she was with a man they assumed to be Elijah. The minute Katie laid eyes on him, it was like all the fear was gone. She couldn't explain it but she felt safe in his presence. He suddenly appeared in front of her.

Elijah was drawn to this girl and not her sister. He knew this was the doppelganger of his beloved Valencia. He leaned in closer and inhaled her scent. "Human. It's impossible." He could tell that her twin sister was human also. "Hello there." Katie couldn't help but give him a small smile. She couldn't understand what was happening to her. A minute ago she was afraid of coming face to face with Elijah and now that he was standing before her. It left her confused.

"Well we have a long journey, we should be going."

"Please don't let him take us." Elena tried pleading with Rose and Trevor.

"One last piece of business then we're done." He said stepping away from Katie and Elena and approaching Trevor. Katie took her sisters hand to try and reassure her they would be ok.

"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah. I'm truly very sorry." Trevor said.

"Oh no your apology is not necessary."

"Yes. Yes it is." Elijah began circling Trevor putting the vampire under stress. "You trusted me with Katerina and I failed you."

"Well yes you are the guilty one." He said coming to stop in front of Trevor. "And Rose aided you because she was loyal to you. That I honour. Where was your loyalty?"

"I beg your forgiveness." He says finally looking Elijah in the eye.

"So granted." What he did next took everyone by surprise. He took Trevor's head clean off. Elena and Katie were shocked by the display of strength shown by Elijah. Rose looked like she was going to attack Elijah but he stopped her. He approaches the twins with his hand held out for one of them to take.

"What about the moonstone?" Elena blurts out.

"What do you know about the moonstone?" He asks her.

"I know that you need it and I know where it is. I can help you get it."

"Tell me where it is."

"It doesn't work that way."

He smirks at the twins before turning his attention back to Rose. "Are you negotiating with me?"

"It's the first I've heard of it." She says with tears still in her eyes.

He turns back to Elena and tries to compel her but he notices the vervain necklace. He rips it off her neck and drags her closer to him.

"Stop." Katie shouts, putting her hand on Elijah's arm. "Please don't hurt my sister. I'll tell you where it is."

Elijah releases his grip on Elena and turns his attention to Katie. "Go ahead, my dear."

Katie takes a deep breath before responding. "It's in the tomb under the church with Katherine."

"Now that is interesting." The sound of a window being smashed could be heard from somewhere inside the house. "Who else is in this house?"

"I don't know." Rose says.

He grabs both girls by the arm and drags them out of the room with Rose following behind. The sound of a vampire speeding behind them was heard and Elijah pushed Elena and Katie towards Rose.

"Up here." Stefan's voice spoke out. Elijah sped up the stairs but couldn't see anything. "Down here." Damon's voice called out. Elijah turned round and a stake went through his hand. When he pulled it out, he noticed that the girls were gone.

Katie opened her eyes and Damon was standing in front of her with one of his hands over her mouth to keep her quiet. "Excuse me." Elijah spoke. "To whom it may concern. You're making a grave mistake if you think you can beat me. You can't. So I want the girls on the count of three or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?"

Elena appeared at the top of the stairs. "I'll come with you. Just please don't hurt my friends. They just wanted to help me and my sister out."

Elijah turns to see Elena standing in front of him but Katie is nowhere to be seen. He speeds up the stairs. "Where is your sister?"

Elena throws a vervain grenade at Elijah's face causing him to scream out in agony. After he has recovered, he moves towards Elena but is stopped by Stefan attacking him. Stefan tackles Elijah down the stairs but he quickly recovers. Before Elijah can kill Stefan, Damon stakes him to the wall, killing him.

When Elijah turns grey, Katie and Rose step out and observe the scene. Rose speeds away. Damon goes to follow but Elena stops him. "Just let her go." Elena rushes to Stefan and embraces him.

Katie approaches Elijah's dead body hanging on the wall. She is unsure what to make of what just happened. Damon drags her away and the four head back to Mystic Falls.

Stefan drops Elena and Katie at home and the pair are greeted by Bonnie and Jeremy. "I'm going to get out of this dress and go to bed. I'm tired." Katie walking into her room.

"Is Katie ok?" Jeremy asked Elena.

"I don't know. She's been acting strange since Damon killed Elijah."

"She's probably just tired Elena. You've both had a pretty stressful day." Bonnie pointed out.

"Yeah you're right Bonnie."

Back at the old mansion, Elijah's body came back to life. He pulled the stake from his body with a mission in mind. Head back to Mystic Falls and recover the doppelgangers.

And there you have it. The first chapter of In Love With An Original. Just to be clear, this will NOT be a Klaus/Elijah love triangle. To be honest I'm not a fan of those. Hope you guys like this. I'll try and have a trailer for this story up as soon as I can. I'm trying to do something different with this story. Usually I have the characters fall in love instantly but that's not going to be the case. I'm going to ease into it. Anyway enough from me. Happy Reading.

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