A/N: I saw a gif on tumblr and I don't know how but this story came to mind and I decided to write it down. I don't know if I should continue I might just leave it as if since I'm currently working on another story to publish but I might just work on both if any one actually gets interested enough to read this, which I hope you all do.
So please leave me reviews at the end and tell me if I should continue and if you actually liked it. Criticism is welcome so just write what you feel.
Full summary: Elena knew a man who told her stories of vampire when she was a child, and that's what she thought they were, just stories but she soon realizes she was wrong. She soon learns all the stories he told her were real. What happens when this man not only saves her life but could possibly be something more. Starts during the 2x8 Rose episode. The plot will change and won't go the same and the rest of the tvd episodes. Also, Elena and Stefan are still broken up after 2x6 when Elena breaks up with him after Jenna stabs herself and ends up at the hospital because of Katherine. AU drabble.
Anyways, I really do hope you enjoy. Leave reviews at the end :)
Like always, disclaimer, I own nothing.
Elena stirs while in her sleep while she remembers her dreadful breakup with Stefan.
"I'm so sorry," Stefan whispers when Elena enters his house.
He was watching the fire burn and when entered. He was upset and angry for what Katherine did to Jenna.
"We were stupid. Sneaking around thinking we weren't going to get caught."
Stefan is distraught because he knew what was coming for him and his relationship with Elena. He was upset and he didn't want to cry because of it. He wanted to be strong for her but he just couldn't deal with the fact that he was about to loose her.
He nods slowly, "I know," agreeing with Elena.
"We did this. Stefan, Jenna's in the hospital and Jeremy could be next all because we didn't listen to her all because we're together." She continues while getting closer to Stefan.
His arms were crossed against his chest, he knew Elena was going to end the relationship but he didn't want to hear her say it.
He couldn't be with out her.
Elena takes a deep breath and comes closer to him, "Stefan…"
But he stops her, "I know what you're going to say."
"Then let me say it," Elena continues finally reaching Stefan.
Stefan nods and holds his sadness inside him but he couldn't do it.
"I've been so selfish because I love you so much and I know how much you love me," she begins and tries her hardest to keep it together while she watches Stefan crumble in front of her.
"But it's over," she finishes when Stefan nods at her encouraging her to continue.
"Stefan it has to be," she continues when Stefan sheds a tear in front of her.
"Elena," he whispers.
"No, Stefan, it has to be," she whispers as she holds his face gently.
She holds her tears and kisses him gently one more time. She tries to talk to him one more time but she knew she couldn't she knew she needed to leave his house as soon as possible.
She needs to get away before she continues to get hurt. She needs to get away because she knew that for this round, Katherine had won.
She knew she needed to end the relationship, she needed to safe every one she loves and if it means staying away from a vampire than that's what she'll do.
Everything about her was changing so quickly she didn't know how to deal with it. She was holding it together but she knew she was quickly going to lose everyone she's ever loved and she couldn't do that. She needed to protect her only family that was left and the close friends she had but she was quickly losing that grip.
One of her best friends was already a vampire and the other one was a witch and she was strangely a doppelganger.
She stirs again when she hears strange voices around her. She needed to get up and find her way home, find her way out.
"How's the girl?" Rose asks to her companion. Elena didn't know who had her but she could clearly hear the conversation going around her while she found herself lying down on the couch in the room next door to them.
"She's still passed out," he replies.
"You didn't touch her did you?" Rose asks. Her voice getting angry by the attitude he gives her.
"Give me some credit, so did you call him?" he wonders.
Elena pays close attention to the conversation. She stirs and wakes up hearing a stranger mans deep voice asking questions. Clearly agitated with whomever he's speaking with.
She doesn't know where she is but what she does know is that this isn't home and this isn't a safe place and that she should be scared. She needed to hide her fear. For all she knew she was stuck with vampires and they could easily kill her if she did something wrong. Her only plan was to stay alive and to get home as soon as possible.
But she knew that she needed to be strong, she couldn't let herself easily get hurt. She looks at herself and finds blood on her shirt on her arm. She doesn't remember where she got it from either. Her mind was cloudy as to how she got here and who took her.
"No. I called one of his contacts. You know how this works." Rose replies.
Elena tries to get up from the couch but she's realizes her body is sore as she puts all her strength into getting up from the couch. She takes deep breaths making sure they don't listen to her soft cries of pain while she gets up.
"Did you or did you not get the message from Elijah?" the man asks trying to mask his anger.
That's when Elena stops moving, she hears the name Elijah and suddenly flood of memories enter her mind again. She once knew a man named Elijah and she wonders if they were talking about the same man.
She shakes her head slightly. Clearly they must be talking about some one else. She didn't know what happened to the old Elijah she once knew, the most beautiful man she thought she ever laid eyes on. Now that she thinks about it, he still was.
She was only a child the last time she saw him, about to start middle school. She didn't know why he left Mystic Falls and why he never bothered to make contact with her or her family again but she now realizes that she missed him for a very long time.
She continues to rise from the couch as she continues to listen to the on going conversation happening in the next room. She needs to make sure they continue to speak as she tries to leave the house or at least make sure they don't hurt her.
"They say he's got it," Rose replies.
Elena leaves the room and stops when she sees a woman cross the hall and she hopes she doesn't notice her. She needs to find a way to get out of this home but she wonders if all vampire had day light rings like Stefan and Damon. If she ran she has a fifty percent chance these vampires won't be able to go after her until the sun is gone.
"Wonderful and what?" the man continues to ask.
"So that's it, Trevor, he either got it or he didn't we just have to wait." Rose replies.
Elena continues to walk and see the man and women holding her hostage. Does this mean that they are excepting for Elijah to come to this house? She continues to walk and wonder if they are in fact talking about the same Elijah she once used to know.
"Look it's not to late we can leave her here we don't have to go through with this." Trevor continues starting to doubt this whole plan. He was afraid.
He didn't want to die. He was tired of running just like his sister, Rose but he didn't want to deal with Originals. Not again any ways, it had been years since he last saw the Originals and now one was about to come to his life and most likely kill him. He didn't want to die, he's spent all his life running and he finally wanted to have some freedom but he was beginning to doubt he'd ever have any.
He needed to be afraid of the Originals after what he's done. He was afraid he wasn't going to survive today.
"I'm sick of running," Rose continues trying to calm him down. She understood him but if he ran after all this he would end up dead and she knew it.
Elena continues to walk but has no idea what to do. She knew she couldn't escape this house with out these two people catching her but she also didn't want to keep getting hurt.
"Yeah, well running keeps us from dying."
Elena tries to be as quiet as possible. She didn't know why but she has some hope that maybe staying shut and continuing to walk would get here out of here.
"Elijah is old school. If he excepts our deal we're free." Rose replies.
There goes that name again she thought to herself. He was beginning to haunt her thoughts and she needs to get away.
She continues to walk but the floor creaks and Elena wants to kill herself right there and then. For a second she almost thought this was going to be possible, for at least one full second she thought it could be possible to get out of here with out getting caught but now she needs to worry about this angered woman approaching her.
"You! There's nothing around here for hours if you think you're getting out of this house you're tragically wrong understand?" Rose threatens her and Elena has nothing else to do but listen.
Her companion leaves the room and Elena decides to talk to her.
"Who's Elijah?" Elena asks Rose.
She needs to ask. She needs to find out if it's the same Elijah she once knew. If it's the same Elijah that would curl up with her outside on the grass and tell her stories about vampires.
The same man that told her he would never abandon her and would always be there for her but she realizes it can't be the same man once Rose speaks to her and gives her an answer.
"He's your worse nightmare." she replies and walks away.
Elena didn't know what to do but she knew she couldn't try to walk away from the house with out capturing her but if she couldn't escape she decided getting some answers would be better than not doing anything.
When she learned that vampires were in fact true she didn't know that they would all be coming after her. She never thought that so many people would look her for because she was in fact, the doppelganger. Whatever that meant, she thought to herself.
She thought to herself why Elijah told her about vampires when she was little and she wondered if he knew they were real. She was now beginning to think Elijah told her all those stories for a reason.
She goes to another room and tries to look for some kind of exit that would lead her to freedom.
"Tell me a story." Elena says out loud while sitting down on the sofa watching Elijah.
"What kind of story, sweet Elena?" He asked her.
"A scary story." She replied and smiled at him.
Elijah chuckled. He knew Elena's favorite stories were the scariest ones he told her but he always still felt the need to ask her even though he always knew the answer. She was a strong little girl and he knew that from the second he met her.
"Okay, come on let's get you ready for bed and I'll tell you a story then," he replies and takes Elena's small hand.
Together they go towards her bedroom. Elena lies down and gets comfortable on her bed excited for a new story. She didn't know what it'd be about but she knew it would be good.
All stories Elijah ever told her where in fact good and scary sometimes. She watched as Elijah took a chair and sat down next to Elena's bed and took a deep breath thinking of what she should tell her next.
"There used to be two brothers," he began and watched as Elena took in and listened to his every word.
"They used to be on the run together, fighting to say alive. You see, little Elena, vampires can live for all of eternity and you must understand this eternity is a really long time, but even as a vampire you don't always get a life. You have to fight for your life just like humans and these brothers were always fighting for their lives.
Some people think that being a vampire would give you an easy life and you would be able to do whatever you want because you have until the end of time to live but some vampires don't get to have that kind of freedom.
These brothers wanted to live and they wanted to exist for all of eternity. They wanted to be invincible. Together the two brothers kept close the rest of their family close but not alive. This family was different than the rest of the vampire race and they couldn't die as easily as others they didn't die with just a simple stake through the heart and because they were special they were granted that power."
"Who were they running from?" Elena asked curiously to know more details. She was intrigued and wanted to know all she could about these brothers. Everything Elijah would be willing to tell her.
"There was an evil vampire hunter that wanted both of these brothers dead. He believed these two brothers and all the vampire race were evil and must die but he knew he needed to kill the brothers first." Elijah answered.
"But if he thought they were evil why didn't he think the same about himself? You said he was also a vampire," Elena continued to ask.
Elijah smiled because he knew Elena was a wonderful, compassionate and understanding person for such a young age and he hoped it would stick with her once she knew the truth about him and the supernatural world.
"You are right, little Elena, but I must tell you that even I can't answer that question for you," Elijah continued.
"This man though hated who he was and he thought that killing these two brothers would make peace and would also save the humans life because he thought these two brothers would kill all humans.
He wanted to keep a balance so to speak to keep the vampires from killing all the humans and to stop making any more vampires. He wanted a would in which no vampires exist."
"How would that keep a balance it would just be humans." Elena asked.
Elijah smiles once again he forgot to explain to her that it was more than just vampires that walked among the human race.
"You are correct, but in this world that vampires exist you have to remember there are other supernatural things that keep this would balanced."
"Like what?" Elena asked her eyes sparkling for more information.
"Like witches and werewolves. Witches always want to keep the balance in life from the supernatural world and the humans. Most witches detest vampires as well."
"Why?" Elena wondered. Some one the stories Elijah had told her in the past showed there were in fact good vampires. Everyone should get the chance to prove themselves to be either good or bad she thought but didn't tell Elijah.
"They believe vampires are not people you should trust because they are believed to be the walking dead.
The man that wanted to kill these two brothers was once in love with a witch. It was this witch who made him and these two brothers vampires. The witch was no longer alive to kill the brother so this man took it upon himself to make his job to kill the two brothers and then to kill himself and any vampire who stood in his way was meant to die.
One night, the brothers were sitting together sharing a human for dinner, don't forget these brothers were vampire and they took pride in the human blood diet.
Together they were drinking blood when their companion who always traveled with them, a witch, came bursting through the door informing them that the man they had been running from was getting close to their home and out of no where a fire started in the house."
Elena's eyes widen as she heard the two brothers were close to their death. She didn't want to say it out loud but she didn't want the two brothers to die.
"They left their home and began to run for their lives, but what the brothers didn't know was that the man was already inside looking for the brothers so he could kill him and he was close. Luckily for them though they had a witch on their side and the hunter didn't know it.
The brothers together ran and left their home and together they watched as it burned down but they couldn't stray for too long. The witch running with them helped them put a spell on the man that would keep him in a coma and would gifted the brothers the freedom of no longer having to run and worried about survival.
Together they hid the man where he couldn't be found and would not get out with a spell their witch put on the area. And the brothers left and started a new life with out having to run until one of the brothers stab the other."
Elena gasped, "Why did he do that? They got happiness."
"I don't know, little Elena, but the brother was brought back to life later on after a couple of years. Don't forget these two brothers were special and they couldn't die like regular vampires. They were special."
"Did he ever talk to the brother who stabbed him?" Elena asked.
"No he did not, after that he did not trust his brother again to keep him alive," Elijah replies and Elena nodded understanding the brother.
"I understand," she replied and yawned in her bed.
"Sleep, little Elena," Elijah says and kissed her forehead before leaving her room.
Elena brings herself back to the present and finds the woman keeping her hostage in the same room as her once again.
"Why am I here?" Elena asks her.
Elena watches as she turns on a lamp but doesn't reply to Elena.
"Keep asking me these questions like I'm going to answer them." The woman replies. Elena was tired of not getting any answers.
Elena shakes her head in desperation. She decided she wasn't going to run; at least she wasn't planning on it at the moment.
"Why won't you?" Elena continues but the woman is only more bother by her constant questioning.
"That's another one," Rose replies covering the windows staying away from the sun. She couldn't let herself and Trevor get burn.
"You got me. It's not like I'm going any where the least you can tell me is tell me what you want with me." Elena continues to pry answers off, which she is lacking on giving her.
"I personally want nothing I'm only a delivery service." Rose replies and continues to cover the windows.
Elena sighs, it was something more than she was originally telling her but she wanted to know more. Why they wanted her and for what.
Every one was so interested in Elena it was starting to get to her.
"Delivery to who? Elijah?" Elena asks and watches Rose chuckle.
"You're quite the eavesdropper."
"Who is he? Is he a vampire?"
"He's one of the vampires, as the originals." Rose replies now shuffling books around.
Elena doesn't say anything but this stops her. It sounds so familiar from the stories she was told when she was younger. Could they all be real? Could there actually be special vampires?
"What do you mean, the originals?" Elena asks curiously. She needs to know more. Those stories can't all be real. They couldn't be they were just told to her like any other story.
Everything she listened to when she was little couldn't actually be true. Vampires being real yes and witches yes, but actually original vampires? Could it? All there's missing to this life were werewolves.
"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?" Rose replies trying to get Elena off her back looking through pages of some book.
"So you know Stefan and Damon?" Elena asks surprised to her the brother's name.
"I know of them, a hundred years ago a friend tried to set me up with Stefan," Rose replies smiling while thinking about her dear friend. "She said he was one of the good ones. More of a sucker for the bad boys but I digress."
Elena ignores Rose replies and continues to press her previous questions. "Who are the originals?"
Rose closes her books and turns towards Elena.
"Trevor and I have been traveling for 500 years. We're tired we want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."
"But why me?" Elena presses.
"Because you're a Petrova doppelgänger. You're the key to breaking the curse."
"The curse… The sun and the moon curse?" Elena thinks out loud, she couldn't be the key to something so serious like a curse.
Rose rolls her eyes, "You do know your history."
"What do you mean I'm the key, the moonstone is what breaks the curse." This couldn't all be real, she thought to herself. "I'm not that special," she continues to think.
"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse, the sacrifice is what breaks it," Rose explains.
"The sacrifice?" Elena whispers.
"The blood of the doppelgänger, you're the doppelgänger, which means in order to break the curse you're the one that has to die."
Elena couldn't believe what she was hearing. She thought that because she looked like Katherine was a coincidence of something because she was adopted or so not because she was the key to breaking a curse for vampires.
This meant that she had to die and this is why so many vampires were on constant look for her. She didn't want to die, she wanted to live she wanted to have a future and to live a long life as a human but as she slowly learned more about the supernatural life she knew she was not meant to have the life that she once dreamed of when she was a child.
She was meant to have some thing else, something much more bigger than her and she didn't know how to handle it. She didn't want to live a life in which she would have kids and have them continue being alive and being looked for like she is. If having children were the option to stop this she would stop herself from ever having kids in the future. "If I ever get one," she thinks to herself.
She wants to survive this was that's right in front of her but she didn't know a way of not doing it without dying but the thought of leaving Jenna and Jeremy alone was slowly breaking her heart.
"Tell me more." Elena asks.
"Captivity has made her pushy, heh?" Trevor asks while entering the room with the two girls.
"What do you want to know doppelicious?" He continues while covering more windows.
"Who are you running from?" Elena asks turning to Trevor.
"The originals." He replies simply. Elena rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, she said that what does that mean?" Elena continues to ask.
"The first family. The old world." He replies while kicking a book on the floor and walking by her to the rest of the book sitting on top of a desk.
"Rose and I pissed them off." He continues to explain but stops when Rose coughs.
"Correction I pissed them off." Trevor continues rewording his sentence.
"Rose had my back for over half a millennium and since then they wanted us dead," he finishes while throwing book on the floor.
"What did you do?" Elena asks and Trevor turns and looks over at Rose.
"He made the same mistake countless others did, he trusted Katerina Petrova." Rose replies.
"Katherine?" Elena whispers as she hears the devils name herself.
"Mmm, the one and only. The first Petrova doppelgänger." Rose replies and begins to walk away.
"I helped her escape her death and that's why I've… I mean we have been locked up ever since." Trevor adds to the conversation.
"And we're not going to make the same mistake again," Rose adds.
Trevor puts the books down and both Rose and him leave the room leaving Elena alone once again.
She didn't know what to think while listening to this conversation. There was only so much both Stefan and Damon both knew about vampire history and so much she didn't know.
She wonders if they know she needs to die in order to break the spell and what vampire wants to break the curse.
She leaves the room and returns to sit on the couch once again and feel paper under her shoe when she sits down. She picks it up and reads it. Stefan and Damon are coming for you. -B.
She smiles softly and she hopes they both don't get hurt trying to safe her. She crumbles the paper close to herself while hugging her legs to her chest and waiting and hoping for the Salvatore brothers to get here quick.
Rose begins to pick up bags from the room but Elena stays quiet this time while Rose walks around the room watching her.
Trevor comes to the room running nervously, "He's here. This is a mistake…" He starts to say nervously.
"No, I told you I would get us out of this you have to trust me," Rose replies trying to put Trevor at ease but Elena notices he's afraid of this man that's coming.
"No," Trevor yells. "He wants me dead, Rose." Trevor continues. He knew he was close to dying. Elijah wouldn't forgive him. He knew it.
"He wants her more." Rose adds.
"You give her to him, I need to get out of here." Trevor says looking for a way to hide he couldn't run with the sun still out.
"Hey! What are we?" Rose asks while holding Trevor.
He takes deep breaths trying to relax. "We're family. Forever."
They all hear three knocks and Trevor begins to get afraid for his life once again. This was the day they both have been waiting for.
"You're scared." Elena whispers.
"Stay here with her," Rose says to Trevor. "And don't make a sound." Rose leaves the room to find Elijah.
Elijah opens the door and slowly begins to enter the abandon home wondering where both Rose and Elena could be.
Rose walks down the stairs and finds Elijah waiting for her inside the house. She tried to keep herself calm for both her sake and her brother.
"Rosemarie, is there somewhere we can talk?" Elijah begins breaking the silence.
Rose takes a deep breath, "Yes, in here. I have to forgive the house."
"Oh what's a little dirt?" Elijah replies smirking.
"I completely understand," he continues and walks inside the house and closes the door.
"So tell me, what gives you the courage to call me?" he continues while walking towards one of the rooms. He knew that Rosemarie had been on the run trying to survive because of Trevor, the man who didn't keep his loyalty to him.
"I wanted my freedom. I'm tired of running are you in a position to grant me that?" Rose begins.
"I have complete authority to grant you and your little pet… what is his name… Trevor. If I so see fit." He replies as he touches the things around the kitchen.
"Katerina Petrova?" Rose asks.
Elijah turns and watches Rose more carefully. When he learned that Rosemarie was calling him and to meet him so close to Mystic Falls he quickly thought about Elena and then he thought about Katerina.
"I'm listening." Elijah replies keeping his cool. For all his life he never let any one know that Elena was a Petrova doppelganger and that Katerina did have a baby before her family disowned her.
"She didn't burn in the church in 1864." Rose continues and Elijah listens carefully.
"Continue." Elijah says coolly while sitting down.
"She survived." Rose finishes.
"Where is she?" Elijah asks.
"You don't seem surprised by this." Rose says. Shocked by Elijah's response. For a second she thought he'd be surprised by the information she was giving him but she also knew he was an original. He knew everything. Almost everything, she thought to herself.
"When you called me and invited me into this armpit of civilization which is a mere three hours away from Mystic Falls I surmised it had everything to do with Katerina." Elijah explains.
"Do you have her in your possession?" He asks.
"No, but I have better," Rose replies taking steps towards Elijah.
"I have her doppelgänger." Rose says getting closer to Elijah who's still sitting down coolly like always.
"That's impossible," Elijah replies. Keeping his face with no expression showing that he actually knows the truth and that's he's known all his life.
"Her family line ended with her I know that for a fact," he continues.
"Your facts are wrong." Rose adds while looking at Elijah seriously.
"Well show her to me." Elijah tells her. He wanted to know if Rose was telling the truth and he needed to make sure Elena would not be scared of him.
"Elijah, you're a man of honor, you should be trusted but I want to hear you say it again." Rose says this time even closer to Elijah.
"You have my word that I will pardon you." Elijah tells her once more.
"Follow me," Rose replies while leaving the room and go to Elena.
Elena hears both Rose and Elijah walk into the room and she turns to find the same man she knew during her childhood, still alive and looking exactly the same as when she knew him them.
They stare at each other for what's less than a second before Elijah runs towards her in his vampire speed and meets face to face with her. Elena tries to hold her breath and appear to not be scared.
This may be the same man but he was cold towards her. He wasn't the same man that would tell bedtime stories before going to bed every night before he left her.
Elijah goes towards her neck and smells her to hear her pulse and smell her blood.
"Human, it's impossible." He says out loud for both Rose and Trevor to hear, he leans in closer to Elena's ear and whispers, "Just pretend." He backs away from her and smiles, "Hello, there," he says louder this time.
"We have a long journey ahead of us we should get going." He continues while putting his hand out for her to take.
Elena says nothing. She didn't know what to do. She didn't want to leave with Elijah but for some reason she understood when he told her to pretend in a mere whisper. She knew he didn't want this two people to know that she knew Elijah.
"One last piece of business and we are done." Elijah says walking away from Elena and turning to Trevor.
"I've waited so long for this, Elijah." Trevor begins and Elena could see the fear in his eyes.
"I'm truly very sorry but your apologize are not necessary." Elijah begins.
"Yes, yes it is." Trevor adds to his apologies.
Elijah ignores him and continues to walks around Trevor.
"You trusted me with Katerina and I have failed you." Trevor adds trying to make sure he doesn't die today.
"Well yes, you are the guilty one," Elijah continues to walk around Trevor making him even more nervous and worried.
"And Rose hated you because she was loyal to you and that I honor." Elijah continues to walk and finally stops in front of Trevor. "Where was your loyalty?"
"I beg your forgiveness." Trevor continues. He would do whatever he could to stay alive but he knew he should of ran and left Rose and the doppelganger together. He knew he should of continued to run.
"So granted." Elijah smiles and then moves his hand so quickly in speed that it breaks Trevor head from his body and kills him. Immediately Rose beings to cry for her brother's death after Elijah kills him. She thought they would both be granted forgiveness forever but she was wrong.
"Come," Elijah says and walks towards Elena. She couldn't believe she just watched Elijah kill Trevor. All he wanted was his freedom.
Elena begins to walk towards Elijah when they all stop when they hear someone break a window.
"What is that?" Elijah turns and asks Rose.
"I don't know." Rose replies scared for her safety.
"Who else is in this house?" Elijah continues to ask.
"I don't know." She replies.
Elijah snatches Elena and takes her with him while he walks back towards the entrance of the house.
"Move," he yells at Rose while he continues to take Elena with him.
Damon runs around the house and Elijah lets go of Elena and throws her towards Rose who holds her arm.
Damon keeps running around the house trying to distract Elijah.
"Rose?" Elijah continues to ask.
"I don't know who it is."
"Up here," Elena hears Stefan and Elijah runs in vampire speed up the stairs.
"Down here," Damon says.
Someone then stabs Elijah in the hand. He takes a deep breath angrily and takes off the stake and turns to see both Elena and Rose gone from where they both were.
Stefan grabs Elena and tells her to be quite and not to move.
"Excuse me, to whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think you could beat me. You can't you hear that?" Elijah yells to who ever is in the house with him.
"I repeat you can not beat me, so I want the girl on the count of three or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?" Elijah continues.
"I'll come with you," Elena says on the top of the stairs.
"Just please don't hurt my friends. They just wanted to help me out."
"Elena," Elijah says in a warning tone.
Stefan then comes out and runs towards Elijah and starts throwing stakes at Elijah, which don't harm him at all and Stefan begins worry.
Stefan throws himself at himself at Elijah and together they both fall down the stairs. Elijah losing his patience takes one of the previous stakes and makes his move to stab Stefan when he hears Elena yell at him.
"Don't!" Elena yells running down the stairs trying to stop Elijah from killing Stefan.
"Don't kill him please I'll come with you," she begs him.
Elijah takes a strong hold of Stefan and put him right in front of his face and looks straight at his eyes. "Bring me who ever is with you."
Stefan nods and leaves the room looking for Damon and Elena is shocked when she realizes that Elijah just easily compelled Stefan.
"Come," Elijah, says to Elena keeping a close hold on her.
Stefan returns with Damon trying to fight him off but Elijah quickly takes a hold of Damon and easily compels him as well. "You will leave with you friend and not come back for Elena."
Damon nods agreeing to Elijah's compulsion and Elijah takes another hold of Stefan and compels him again, "You will leave and leave Elena with me," he continues and lets go off him.
"Come, Elena." He replies and Elena takes a hold of his hand.
"Tell me what you know," he asks her but Elena doesn't reply.
They leave the house and Elijah opens the door for Elena. He turns towards his door and starts the car and they begin to leave.
He looks at Elena, "I'm not going to hurt you, Elena. I would never hurt you."
"How is this true?" Elena whispers watching the view out the window of the car.
"I will explain but you need to tell me what you know," he continues while they drive.
"You need the moonstone," Elena replies and Elijah quickly pulls the car over and turns to Elena.
"What do you know about the moonstone? Where is it?" He asks and notices her necklace filled with vervain and he takes it off her.
"It's in the tomb under the church."
"Why is it there?" Elijah asks.
"Katherine has it." she replies and watches Elijah shake his head.
"Oh my dear, Katerina."
"You know her?"
"Yes I do, Katerina is running from both me and my brother for many years because she is the first Petrova doppelganger who was going to be used for the sacrifice. Trevor helped Katerina run from both me and my brother and away from us Katerina turned herself to a vampire in order to escape her death." Elijah explains.
"So that's why everyone wants me because I'm next in line?" Elena asks.
She watches Elijah shake her head.
"Elena, please understand, I will not let anyone kill you and if my brother finds out you are alive I will keep you safe, I promise."
Elena sighs.
This is the same Elijah she knew when she was little. "Why did you leave?" She didn't know why she was asking but after all this time she needs to know.
"I was in your life for a very long time. If I continued to stay with you every one would of began to wonder why I wasn't aging. I continued to watch over you for a long time and I'm surprised it took this long for vampires to realize you're Katerina's doppelganger. I will explain to you more about the curse but I have to warn you, you can't stay at Mystic Falls for long. I can take you back home with your family but you must stay out of trouble and away from vampires.
Your friends today, the Salvatore brothers thought they could easily kill me but being an Original vampire gives me some advantages. If you remember any story I told you when you were a child just know they were all true. Most of them were about me. Those two brothers were both my brother and I."
Elena didn't what to say. Everything he told her was true, when she first learned that vampire where real she thought about him. Just like when Bonnie showed her she was a witched she thought about Elijah. He always told her the truth and she knew she could trust him.
"If I need to die to kill the curse so be it, but promise me you'll keep my family and friends safe."
"Elena, I won't let you die."
Elena listens and shakes her head. "Just promise me," she whispers.
"I promise you, Elena but I will keep you alive." Elijah replies while he takes a hold of her hand and gives her knuckles a soft kiss.
She didn't know why but the kiss brought her stomach butterflies.
She didn't know why but that small crush she had about Elijah when she was little was coming back to her as she remembers what a gentleman Elijah always was.
He was a man to be trusted and to always expect loyalty from and she knew he would keep his promises to her.
"So what now?" She asks him.
Elijah stayed quiet for a while pondering his response.
"We return to Mystic Falls. You will continue your life as normal and stay out of trouble. I need visit the lovely, Katerina and retrieve the moonstone from her after that I will tell you everything you need to know."
Elijah looks away and starts the car again and drives towards Mystic Falls. Elena sits comfortably in Elijah presence and begins to relive all the memories she had with Elijah as a child.