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Chapter 1: Mystery Girls

A few days after Klaus killed Elijah a pair of females came into town. Alaric and Damon were at the Grille where they first seen them. Damon noticed them the minute they walked through the door. They were both nearly the same height, and skinny. The one that came in first had shoulder-length blond hair covering one eye, and she wore white dress. The other, had long dark hair pulled back into a pony tail, and she wore slim pants with heels and a tank top.

"They're a bit overdressed for Mystic Falls." Damon said getting Rick's attention.

"There's no parties going on is there?"

"No."

The girls walked to the bar and sat down ordering their drinks. Damon and Rick walked over to join them and to figure out who they were. "Well, hello ladies." Damon said acting like his usual charming self with a smile. Rick kept to himself just grinning. "You're not from around here, and you look awful snazzy."

"No we're not, and yes we do." Said the dark haired one refusing to answer. "Who are you?" She asked snootily looking to Rick who was next to her.

"Alaric, and that's Damon."

"Milena." She said holding out her hand for him to shake. "And my cousin."

"Annemarie." The blonde finished for her shaking Damon's hand.

Except Milena didn't let go of Alaric's hand. "You're not very smart, are you? Coming over here trying to be sneaky with a couple of vampires. I understand him, because he's one too, but you – a human."

"Look." Damon said. "This is our town, and we don't like to share, so what do you want?"

"It's none of your business." Said Milena.

"Milena, let him go." Annemarie said, and Milena hesitantly listened. "We're not here to cause trouble, and we'll be gone in a couple days."

"Good." Damon said and walked away. Immediately, he grabbed his phone to call Elena, since Stefan was gone. "We may have a problem."

"What do you mean?"

"We have two new vampires in town; they just came into the Grill."

"What do they want?"

"They didn't say. So be careful." He warned before hanging up on her.

Elena was out with Caroline and Bonnie who looked at her worried at what was going on. She looked to them. "It's nothing, just Damon being paranoid as usual."

"Who are they?" Bonnie asked. Elena gave her a confused look so she clarified. "You said what do they want?"

"Damon ran into two vampires at the grill."

"They're not here for Klaus, are they?" Bonnie asked.

"I don't know." Elena shrugged. "They didn't say. But I doubt it, I mean the curse was broken and he's gone."

"Maybe we could go find out." Caroline insisted.

"You want to talk to them?" Said Bonnie.

"Well, if they work for Klaus then there's no reason for them to harm me, I mean I have nothing to do with him."

"No, it's too risky."

"Elena, look at everything you tried to do. That was risky."

"Then I'm going with you." Bonnie insisted. "Elena, you should go find Damon. You have enough to worry about with Stefan. So you two can work on that while we figure this out."

Elena was hesitant about it but she finally sighed saying, "Ok."

Meanwhile Damon went back to his house to see Elena waiting for him while Rick went to see Jeremy to warn him.

"Elena, why am I not surprised to see you here?" Damon said as he came into the living room and poured himself a drink.

"We need to come up with a plan Damon. How are we going to save Stefan?"

"I'm not so sure we can."

"How can you say that?"

"Elena, he's with Klaus. We've been looking for days, we have no way of tracking him."

"There has to be something."

He walked over to her after finishing his drink. "I promise we won't stop looking…In the meantime, what are we going to do about our two visitors?"

"Caroline and Bonnie are looking for them?"

"They what?"

"They wanted to talk to them."

"Are they insane? We don't know anything about these girls. We don't know how old they are, how strong they are, or even if they're alone."

Meanwhile, Rick was with Jeremy who was still trying to figure out how he saw Anna and Vicki. They all knew about it already, but they hadn't been able to find anything, like they were ghosts. Damon even checked where he buried Vicki and she was still there, meaning they were ghosts. Damon had decided that was Bonnie's area of expertise, so he could focus on finding Stefan with Elena. And now they had another problem. Although, Rick didn't tell Jeremy, he had enough on his mind.

"Find anything?" Rick asked him as he walked into the living room where Jeremy was sitting on the couch going through Bonnie's spell book. She had left it there the night before when they were looking up ghosts together.

"No. I don't even understand half of this. Where's Bonnie? I thought she'd be back by now."

"She's helping Elena and Damon with the Stefan situation, so I thought I'd stop by to see how you were doing."

"I'm alright, I guess. I just never thought I'd see them again, you know. And ghosts? Like we don't have enough creatures to worry about."

"Yeah, right." Rick said keeping the two new vampires in mind.

"What? What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"So what exactly are we going to do when we find them?" Caroline asked Bonnie as they walked through the woods.

Bonnie didn't turn to look at her, just kept walking forward following the path her spell was telling her to go. "Leave that to me."

"What if they want to fight?"

"Stop worrying."

Getting frustrated, Caroline stopped placing her hands on her hips as she looked around. "Are we even getting close?" It seemed like they'd been walking for hours.

"I don't know." Bonnie admitted taking a look around. Everything looked the same, it was hard to tell. "I think they may have us going in circles."

"They know we're coming."

"Or it's a precaution." Bonnie closed her eyes trying to focus. Leaves blew around them and then they started flying together in one direction. "Come on, let's go this way."

Damon was getting frustrated that they hadn't heard back from Bonnie and Caroline yet. "It's been long enough they should've called."

Elena agreed so she pulled out her phone and tried to call them rather than texting, since they weren't answering the messages she sent. They still didn't answer. "Maybe they have their phones turned off."

"Maybe."

Then they heard a knock at the door. Damon went to answer it, armed with a stake just in case. When he opened the door though, he saw Bonnie and Caroline. He didn't look very happy with them, and called for Elena since she was the only one who could invite Caroline in. "What's wrong?" Elena asked as they walked inside together.

"Did you invite them in?" Bonnie asked.

"No, why?"

"They're here."

"What?" Elena said surprised and then looked up to see Annemarie leaning against the doorway.

"Hello, doppelganger."

"Who are you?" Elena asked trying not to sound frightened.

"Annemarie."

"How do you know me?"

"I never said I knew you…Oh, hello again Damon."

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't drive this through your heart."

"I think it's time you invited me in so we can have a little chat."

"You had your chance, you turned it down."

"It was too public for this kind of thing." Said Annemarie giving Damon a trustworthy look. "I swear I mean you no harm, and that I have no connection to Klaus."

"Fine." Damon said. Elena looked to Damon who nodded and invited her in then they all went to the living room. The three girls sat on the couch while Annemarie sat nicely in the chair with her legs crossed like a lady. "We're listening." Damon said as he stood next to the couch.

"As I said I have no connection to Klaus but he is why we're here, or rather because of something he did."

"Which is?"

"First off, Milena doesn't know I'm here, and will not be happy to find out I've told you. As far as she's concerned this is none of your business."

"We can keep a secret." Damon promised.

"You'd better, we're not ones to forgive. Although, I'd imagine you already knew that."

"What do you mean?" Elena asked.

Annemarie smiled without answering; instead she went on with her story. "Let's say I helped you find Klaus and your boyfriend."

"Why would you?" Bonnie asked. "You said you have no connection to him, so why find him?"

"Then let me rephrase, we have no affiliation with him."

"If you helped Stefan, you would want something in return." Said Elena.

"Yes. What we're here for we cannot find, and only Klaus and Stefan know where it is. So if we help you find him, he must tell me the location. That's the deal."

"What are you looking for?" Damon asked.

"Not your concern."

"Then there's no deal." Damon said. "My brother won't give you what you want without knowing why."

"Yes he will." Annemarie disagreed confidently. "He won't have a choice." Annemarie stood up. "That's the offer, take it or leave it. I suppose we can always do it Milena's way, I just thought it'd be easier with your help. I should go now." She finished and they watched as she left the room then heard the door open and close.

"I don't trust her." Damon said.

Bonnie gave him a look. "You don't trust anyone."

"I don't know what to think." Elena said. "I mean, she came here offering to help when her cousin didn't want anything to do with us. If she can really help find Stefan – "

"Elena, she can't. She could just be saying that to earn her way in."

"What if she's not?"

"Elena, no one could find Klaus. Elijah didn't even know where he was." Bonnie reminded her. "So how could she?"