A/N. This is just an idea I got from watching to many Originals episodes. I know a lot of people have done it but this is my take on it! It's an Elijah/OC but Ellie will be close to everyone (there will be still be fights and a bit of angst though). There may be a few scenes in this story in first person but I will let you know when they are. Don't like, don't read! Review please

Disclaimer- Anything you recognise doesn't belong to me! Ta-da! ;)

Ellie Birde sat anxiously on the edge of her seat watching the drama unfold. She was tired after a long day of revising for finals. All of her family and friends were obsessed with graduation the next year but right now Ellie just needed to relax and she knew exactly how to do that. 'The Vampire Diaries' was just about to finish and she was almost dying with excitement. So far in the episode 'Stelena' had broken up (something that Ellie was happy about even if it was a sad scene), Katherine was getting locked up and Elena was being totally awesome. There was only five minutes left but Ellie had the feeling something big was about to happen. Something that would change everything. As Elena walked towards her car the strangest feeling came over Ellie.

It started in the pit of her stomach. A strange twisting, turning feeling as if she was about to be sick but instead of passing the feeling travelled upwards. Ellie's eyes widened, panicked. A strange light was growing from the point where the feeling had started. A strange gasp escaped her lips. Despite the panic she was in she didn't feel like she needed to scream or call for help. As the light began to cover her whole body she felt her eyes close just as the whole room began to spin. There was a ringing in her ears and dozens of memories were floating to the forefront of her mind. The strange thing was, although some were, not all memories for hers. Images of episodes from 'The Vampire Dairies' rose, unbidden in her head. Just as everything was becoming utterly blurred it stopped. Ellie kept her eyes shut still though. She was scared of heights and she had the strangest feeling that she was floating. Her arms moved to her side of their own accord and she could feel her hair whipping across her face…

And then she was falling. It was the strangest thing ever. She felt like she was having one of those dreams where you were falling and then you suddenly jolted awake. Ellie was just hoping she would wake up. As that slightly terrifying thought crossed her mind she felt her body slam into the floor and she gasped in pain as her eyes shot open.

And then she gasped again. Hurrying towards her was someone who looked amazingly like Elena Gilbert. The Elena lookalike knelt down beside her with worried eyes.

"Are you okay? Mine name's Elena Gilbert. Who are you? Do you need help?"

The questions rolled of Elena's lips and Ellie felt her eyes widen in shock.

"I'm…Ellie. Where am I?" Ellie mentally hit herself as soon as the question left her lips. Elena (if it really was Elena) was going to thing she had some sort of mental damage and the last thing Ellie needed was to have to go to hospital.

Elena gave her a searching look as if seeing if the girl in front of her was playing a practical joke. "You're in Mystic Falls, outside the Lockwood's mansion."

Ellie barely had time to register that before everything went black.

-x-

When Ellie woke her mind only granted her ten seconds of blissful forgetfulness before everything went came back and her eyes shot open. Elena…Mystic Falls…fainting…it was all coming back now. Before the thought had fully processed, another entered her mind. Where was she? The last thing she remembered was lying on the Lockwood's drive. Now she was lying on a dusty sofa…next to Elena! She had barely realised that she wasn't alone. Now she was paying attention to her surroundings she realised that Elena was talking to a guy she didn't recognise. He had dirty blond to brown hair with a shifty nervous air about him. Ellie was positive that the guy hadn't been on the vampire Dairies before now. If this even was The Vampire Diaries. She shook her head quickly as if trying to get rid of any confusing thoughts before tuning in on Elena and the man.

Ellie quickly realised that the man was preparing to bite Elena and without thinking she yelled out just as a new figure entered the room. The woman looked to be in her late twenties and was clearly in control.

"Trevor, control yourself", she ordered in a sharp voice. She had an obvious British accent and her voice was one that demanded that everyone listen to her and show her respect.

"Buzzkill", the man, Trevor, uttered before sauntering out the room. Well…apparently not everyone felt the need to respect her.

Ellie glanced at Elena before focusing back on the woman.

"What do you want with us?" she question, proud that her voice only broke once. Ellie was 99.9 percent sure that the woman was vampire, something that surely wouldn't bode well for herself and Elena.

As she spoke, Ellie saw Elena give her a questioning glance and saw the questions running through her eyes. Clearly Elena wasn't sure how much she knew. Or whether she could be trusted. To Ellie's annoyance the woman ignored Ellie's question and spoke to Elena instead.

"My god you look just like her."

Wonder was evident in her tone though it was obvious she was trying to suppress it. Ellie quickly figured out that this women must mean Katherine and was surprised when Elena tried to tell the woman that she wasn't Katherine. Surely Elena must know by the woman's previous statement that the woman already knew Katherine. Trevor and whoever the woman must have wanted Elena for a reason and Ellie was probably just collateral damage.

Elena paused in her talking before repeating Ellie's earlier question. Instead of ignoring Elena, like she did Ellie, the woman swiftly slapped Elena causing her to go flying before rudely uttering that she wanted Elena to be quiet and storming of. Ellie had frozen when Elena went flying but now she sprang forward to check on Elena. She cursed softly when she saw that Elena was unconscious and gently slapped the side of her face trying to wake her up. When she got no response she gave up trying to wake Elena before she was ready and pulled the older, unconscious girl onto her lap. She slowly stroked Elena's hair out of her face and started softly singing. The singing was really more for her benefit than anyone else's. Ever since she was little she fund that music was a great way to lift spirits, and right now she really needed to feel better.

She didn't know how long passed before she heard anyone again. It could have been anything from ten minutes to an hour in her opinion. Ellie strained her ears to hear what the two vampires were talking about.

"How's the girl?"

That was the woman speaking. Despite the question being about Elena's welfare, the voice was cold and business like.

"Still passed out."

"You didn't touch her did you?"

"Give me some credit."

Obviously Trevor had a history of being unable to control himself when it came to blood. Ellie jumped slightly when she felt Elena moving. She had been so zoned into the conversation that she had failed to realise that Elena was waking up. As Elena gasped slightly Ellie shook her slightly so Elena would look at her then put her finger to her lips, motioning for her to be quiet. Elena sat up slowly and nodded slightly as they heard Trevor continue to speak.

"So you called him?"

Ellie's eyebrows furrowed and she shot a glance at Elena. The way Trevor had said 'him' had made him sound like he was talking about someone he was scared of. Maybe an older vampire? Still there were two of them and why would they call someone they were scared of. It just didn't make sense.

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

The woman sounded upset to and then shook Ellie even further. From what she had seen of the woman, she was always in control so for her to be worried about something was slightly unsettling.

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

Trevor was obviously trying to mask his worry with impatience. Whoever Elijah was, Ellie was pretty sure she didn't want to stick around to him. She glanced at Elena and saw Elena motioning to Ellie to follow her. The two slowly made their way to the door and Elena peered out.

"They say he got it."

"Wonderful, and what?"

Ellie noticed the sarcasm in Trevor's voice was slightly marred and his face uneasy as he and the woman passed by where her and Elena were standing.

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

Ellie slowly began following Elena out the room onto a weird, medieval corridor type room. The mansion they were in looked like it hadn't been used, let alone cleaned, in hundreds of years.

"Look, it's not too late. We can leave her here. We don't have to go through with this-"

Trevor's rambling was cut off by the woman's impatient voice.

"I'm sick of running."

"Yeah? Well running keeps us from dying."

They were running from this Elijah dude? And from the tone of the woman's voice they had been running for a long time. They must have done something seriously bad to have to always keep running. Elijah must be one old vampire.

"Elijah's old school, if he accepts this deal, we're free."

The woman put a lot of emphasis on the last word. It was obvious that it was something both of them wanted to be and they were using Elena (and somehow herself) to get it. By this point Ellie and Elena were standing pretty close to where the argument was taking place. Carefully Elena tried to push open one of the doors but like the rest of the house it obviously hadn't been used in ages. The loud noise it made was enough to alert the vampires to their presence and the woman strode towards them.

"You," she said in a bossy tone, as if she hadn't just been having a heart felt conversation with Trevor. "There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?"

'Well that was great', Ellie thought sarcastically. They were completely trapped. The woman began walking away but Ellie had questions she wanted answered.

"Who's Elijah?" she called out hoping to stop the woman from walking away. It worked. She turned around and walked back towards Ellie and Elena.

The woman paused for a minute, as if deciding what to tell them before finally speaking.

"He's your worst nightmare." She uttered before walking away.

Ellie exchanged a glance with Elena before both of them followed the woman, albeit in Ellie's case slightly nervously.

Although she must have realised the two girls were behind her the woman gave no indication that she knew and carried on walking until they reached a slightly larger room. The women kept walking to the opposite side of the room before turning on a lamp. Ellie frowned, confused. What was the vampire doing? Ellie glanced at Elena to see if she had any guesses but all she got was a shrug.

Elena stepped further into the room and spoke loudly; "Why are we here?"

'Third time lucky', Ellie thought with a wry smile but it appeared the woman didn't share the same sentiments. She continued walking round the room and answered in a brisk tone.

"You keep asking me these questions, like I'm gonna answer them."

Ellie rolled her eyes. This woman was starting to annoy her. She took a step forward and raised her eyebrows in what she hoped was a slightly threatening manner.

"Why don't you?"

The woman looked at her for a few seconds as if deciding whether or not she could be bothered too reply when Elena cut in.

"Look", Elena began in a sharp voice. "I don't know who you are but I'm obviously the doppelganger. You need me for some reason. I get it. The thing is, you don't need Ellie. So just let her go!"

Even though I knew Elena's speech wouldn't work it still touched me. She barely knew me and yet she was trying to bargain for my freedom at the price of her own. Recently on the show Elena had been starting to annoy me which of course made me feel horribly guilty now.

The women frowned at Elena before answering her statement.

"I'm Rose. I'm not stupid, I know you're the doppelganger. And no, we don't need Ellie but we're pretty sure Elijah will want her."

Ellie stiffened slightly. Elijah would want her?

"What?"

It appeared Elena was thinking along the same lines as Ellie and Ellie shot her a grateful look. She was really confused right now. Before today her biggest worries were what to wear to prom and now she was being held hostage by two vampires in a fictional TV show. This couldn't be happening.

Rose rolled her eyes at Elena before irritably saying that, that was another question.

Ellie watched as Elena narrowed her eyes and stepped forward.

"You caught me", she muttered. "It's not like we can go anywhere, the least you can do is tell me what you want with me."

Elena's voice became steelier at the end as she became more determined. Ellie supposed that Elena had every right to be annoyed and she walked forward to stand by Elena's shoulder for moral support. The truth was that as much as Ellie tried to put on a brave front she was terrified. Elena had experience with vampires but Ellie? Ellie had thought they were fictional up until ten hours ago and so far she was pretty glad that she hadn't completely freaked out.

Rose was still walking around, her heels clacking on the stone floor of the room they were in. She sounded bored when she answered Elena.

"I personally don't want anything with you. I'm just the delivery service."

"Delivery to who?" Elena asked, though I was pretty sure she must have figured out who.

"Elijah". Ellie muttered when no-one said anything for a minute.

Rose let out a breathy laugh that sounded a lot like a sigh and started on another job.

"Two points to the eavesdropper", she said, sounding slightly incredulous that two human girls would have the audacity to spy on some vampires. Personally Ellie kind of agreed with her. They had nothing on the two vampires apart from the fact they (for some reason) were wanted by Elijah.

"Who is he?" Ellie asked. She wasn't going to let some random vampire take her away without at least trying to find out more about him. A new thought suddenly struck her. "Is he a vampire?"

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

Ellie risked a glance at Elena as Rose spoke. She had never heard of the Originals so was pretty sure Elena hadn't either. Her thought were confirmed by the confused expression on Elena's face as well as her next question.

"What do you mean the Originals?"

"Again with the questions, haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?" Rose said glancing at Elena before turning to me. "Of course you don't know the Salvatore's so you have an excuse, however you must have already known about vampires considering you haven't fainted once."

Ellie made her face go blank as she struggled to come up with an answer that would seem acceptable. "My sister knows…knew. She told me before she moved on." It seemed like a good reason to Ellie and it was kind of the truth. Her sister was the one who had got her watching the vampire diaries and her sister had moved on. To university. Still it was a lie that would be easy for her to remember. It seemed to do the trick and satisfy Rose's curiosity to as she looked away from Ellie and back to Elena who had begun to ask another question.

"So, you know Stefan and Damon?"

Ellie glanced at Rose curiously. She hadn't thought about that. If Rose did know the Salvatore's…all this might make for an awkward re-union in the future.

"I know of them," Rose replied, a slight grin on her face. "A hundred years ago a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys though but I digress…"

Ellie groaned silently. Defiantly an awkward re-union. Trying to get the mental image of the Salvatore's and Rose meeting she turned to the latter with another question.

"Who are the Originals?"

Rose finally gave up with whatever book she was trying to pack now and turned to face us.

"Trevor and I have been running for five hundred years. We're tired. We want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."

Elena took another step closer with Ellie hung back. She had a feeling that the answer to Elena's next question wouldn't really involve her.

"But why me?" Elena's voice was clear and unwavering and Ellie found herself admiring her in that moment.

"You're a Petrova doppelganger." For a second Ellie thought she heard a note of pity in Rose's voice. "You're the key to breaking the curse."

"The curse?" Ellie asked stepping forward before a sense of realisation hit her and she answered her own question. "The sun and the moon curse."

Rose smiled at me wryly before raising her eyebrows at Elena.

"See?" she said, almost smugly, gesturing to Ellie. "She knows her history."

"What do you mean I'm the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse."

Elena was getting even closer to Rose with her questioning and despite the fact Ellie had a feeling that Rose wouldn't kill Elena, she still felt the urge to tell Elena to get away.

"No." All traces of pity were gone from Rose now. "The moonstone is what binds the curse. Sacrifice is what breaks it."

Ellie gasped and despite herself she suddenly felt rather light headed. Was she going to have to watch Elena die? She knew that if it came to that she wouldn't be able to make it through. She had only known Elena for less than a day but she was already beginning to think of the older girl as a sister. She caught Elena's eye and silently promised that she would never let anything happen to her. Elena seemed to get what she was trying to say and nodded, her mouth set in a grim line as she turned back to Rose.

"Sacrifice?" she asked quietly but with determination laced in her voice.

"The blood of the doppelganger." Rose's voice seemed even harsher now than it did before. "You're the doppelganger. Which means in order to break the curse, you're the one that has to die."

Ellie took a deep breath in to try and calm herself. Elena seemed to be taking this better than her. Ellie had always been a bit soft. In science she could never di-sect anything without fainting or feeling dizzy so it was surprise that all this talk of sacrifice was getting to her. She almost groaned when Elena asked Rose to tell her more. She wasn't sure how much she was going to be able to handle. She heard footsteps coming from the door and hoped that it was Trevor and not Elijah who was getting closer. Luck seemed to be on her side when Trevor walked through the door.

"Captivity's made her pushy, eh?" He said smirking at Elena before looking at me. "What about you the doppelicious girl's friends?"

Ellie found herself glaring at Trevor before closing her eyes again and counting to five before opening them.

"Dizzy", she muttered before once again closing her eyes, hoping the one word would be enough for the vampire.

She heard a whoosh of air and the feeling of movement which just as quickly as it had started, stopped. She opened her eyes and blinked. She was back in the room with the sofa with a semi-concerned Trevor standing next to her.

"Lie down then", he pointed out before following his own advice and taking a seat on the derelict sofa.

Hesitating before doing so, Ellie cautiously made her way over to the couch and sat down. Memories of earlier when Trevor had tried to bite Elena were making her wary.

As if he could read her mind, Trevor pulled her from her sitting position to lay across his lap and, smirking, told her that he didn't bite.

Ellie rolled her hazel eyes at that struggled to sit up. Truthfully she was rather comfy on the vampires lap but she felt she should at least try to get up before giving in.

Trevor's eyes were somewhat distant as he spoke.

"You know Ellie, truth be told I'm rather scared."

Ellie stopped trying to sit up, not wanting him to stop talking. Maybe she could find out more about what Elena was needed for.

"500 years ago I made the mistake of trusting Katerina Petrova. The same mistake countless others have made. In doing so I managed to royally piss of the Originals and well Rose had my back. Honestly," he said looking back down at Ellie, his eyes coming into the present again, "I don't think this will work. But I have to try. For her sake. I we her that much."

Ellie gazed up at the vampire, feeling her respect for him grow. If he was willing to do this for Rose then he must have other redeemable qualities in him.

"I respect you for that", she murmured. Truthfully she was close to sleep but she fought against her heavy lids, not wanting to leave Elena alone if Elijah came.

Trevor's face softened before hardening again.

"I won't make the same mistake again. I won't let the doppelganger go."

I nodded at him.

"I know." I said before succumbing to unconsciousness.

A/N. There you go! Part 1 of 'Rose'. Each episode will be split into two with bonus chapters along the way! Ellie meet's Elijah next chapter! Yay! Let me know if you want me to continue! Belle xoxo