Author's Notes: In this, there are two flashbacks and they will be in italic and also, if you're big Caroline fans-nows the time to click on something else to read.

Don't say I didn't warn you...

Also, a big thanks to bulldozed88 for the kind words

Another thing-I had decided to fix this as I remembered that in a previously written chapter that I had Elijah killing Katherine and in this one it said that it was Katherine who cut John's fingers-I fixed it to Isobel

Sorry for any confusion!


Edited: 04-14-2015


Chapter One: She's back

The sacrifice came to an end, after a thousand years-it was over.

At the cost of Isobel Flemming, Jenna Sommers, Greta Martin, the werewolf Jules and John Gilbert.

Bianca Gilbert, the newest doppelganger of Tatia Petrova, curled herself onto the couch Jeremy placed her on and she cried for her birth parents Isobel and John, for Jenna, for everyone.

Though her heart ached, she knew that they were in a better place and not in any more pain then they were in before.

If she closed her eyes and blocked the sounds coming from everywhere, she could hear the screams of Jules and Greta's chanting.

I'll never have peace was her final thought as her dreams became nightmares once again.


Why am I the one who has to bury the damn body? Damon Salvatore thought angrily as he grabbed a shovel from his little brother Stefan who just appeared, after making sure Caroline and Tyler the werewolf were okay, and together they began shoveling the dirt around where the three circles of fire were located.

The first body they were burying was Jules.

Damon admitted, "I don't feel sorry about her death. If it wasn't Klaus who killed her, it would have been me."

"Just because she bit and killed Rose." Stefan managed to look his brother in the eye as he spoke. "She might have done something stupid but she didn't deserve to die like that."

"You keep thinking like that and I'll believe that you're going soft because of vampire Barbie."

The subtle jibe at Stefan's girlfriend Caroline Forbes made Stefan snarl at him.

He hasn't forgiven him for what he did to Caroline back when she was human.


At least an hour later, they had finished burying Jules and were just about to start burying Greta when the sounds of rustling and leaves crunching could be heard coming from the direction that Daniel and Klaus ran in.

The two brothers looked up and saw a man there that looked like the exact replica of Daniel-even in his black suit.

The hairs on the back of their heads and arms were raised and they were fearful.

This was one vampire they've never seen or heard of.

Is he an Original? Damon and Stefan both thought as they watched him like a hawk.

He was kneeling beside Jenna's body, not caring that he was getting his suit dirty, and as he closed her eyes he muttered something in-Norwegian?- before he stood and walked away.

He didn't even look back to see their curious looks.

They thought nothing of it and continued on digging and burying Greta's body.


It seemed like it was only fourteen days have passed but it had been only seven long and tearful days when Bianca, in her black dress, placed roses on both John and Jenna's graves in the Gilbert Family Plot.

Though Jenna wasn't a member of the Gilbert family, Bianca thought she should still be buried there. She was trying hard not to cry (which was fruitless as the tears fell down her red cheeks) but as soon as she saw the slut bitch Caroline Forbes stroll over to the graves, she felt hollow and angry as the blonde allowed a single tear to fall, and walked away like nothing happened.

There were reasons why vampire Barbie could be cold and Bianca knew that it had to do with her sire, Damon.

Everyone knew that Caroline Forbes had slept with Damon multiple times before she began a relationship with Stefan.

Though she knew that Caroline was compelled to be with Damon, she wasn't compelled to cheat on Matt with Stefan and nearly had a one night stand with Tyler Lockwood while with Matt in the first place.

She knew the same could be said for Caroline's witch best friend Bonnie Bennett-the same witch who tried to kill Klaus and failed.

The same witch who was also dating and nearly slept with Tyler when Jeremy left her only when none of them thought about saving her from Rose and Trevor back in March.

She remembered that the Salvatores had thrown that vervain grenade at Daniel Smith as well as stake him but she was angry and horrified about what they had done.

She knew that Jeremy was still grieving for their parents, Anna and Vicki but now both of their legal guardians were gone.

He left Mystic Falls yesterday for Denver with hers and Alaric's blessings.

They had also asked Bonnie to dagger him only for Bianca herself to undagger him only hours later.

She didn't feel ashamed when they tried telling her that she was a stupid idiot and that what they had done was for her best interest.

That was a lie.

He was the one who saved her from the two vampires who were planning on selling her to Klaus in exchange for their freedom.

Her anger at the Salvatores also stemmed from the fact that since they arrived in Mystic Falls, her life was being dictated and nearly controlled by them from the moment Stefan saved her when her parents died.

Since her death and reawakening, she realized that it wasn't Stefan who saved her from drowning.

It was Daniel.

If he wanted to kill her, he would have let her drown nearly a year ago.

Stefan kept hitting on her and when she was about to say yes after the eighteenth pick up line, she finds him screwing Caroline behind the bleachers.

Damon kept hitting on her as well and when she told him that she couldn't see herself in a relationship with him, he gets drunk and kills Jeremy.

Who survived thanks to his Gilbert ring.

She didn't want them here and as she looked up, she cocked her head as she saw who she thought was Daniel lay flowers on a grave marked SMITH. Standing up, she took her heels off and walked towards him with the intent of laying into him.

"How could you-" she stopped as he looked at her like he didn't know her. "You have no idea who I am do you?" she asked with a sigh.

He chuckled. "I only know that you are the doppelganger who unlocked my brother's curse and is my twin's newest obsession I believe."

"You're his twin brother Elijah," Bianca remembered Daniel telling her about it.


They were walking along the Lockwood Estate when she asked, "how many brothers do you have?"

"I have three-one is my identical twin, one is older than me and the final brother is Klaus." His eyes were misty. "We had another one but he died, that was the catalyst for us becoming The Original Vampires and Elijah hasn't had the easiest life but I cannot blame him for that. None of our siblings can."

"I'm assuming that he didn't take to the transition entirely well?" She asked, wondering how they felt about drinking blood.

He laughed a real laugh. She thought it sounded great to hear.

It sounded better than Bonnie's and Caroline's and everyone else's put together.

"No," his laughter faded and his voice became choked. "It was because he found his wife-his mate -dead from a stab wound from which she bled out." He seemed to be locked in that memory before shaking his head sadly.

It was evident that he missed her even as horror filled her. She could vividly imagine finding any of her family members like that-and had found John not only stabbed but his fingers cut off because of Isobel who Jenna invited in. Tears nearly blinded her eyes as she shivered.

"Oh God!"


"I am." Elijah looked at the group who were there surrounding the two new graves. "I am assuming that you do not like them much." He gestured towards the group as they ignored her and studied him.

She scrunched her nose and nodded. "Yeah, you could say that I strongly dislike them." He nodded and made a motion with his hand.

"Follow me."


The two trekked through the woods until they stopped at the falls where he sat down, staring at the water.

"I met my light here." He smiled sadly as the memory played in his mind.

He was hunting when the sounds of water splashing around was heard. He stopped his tracking and stalked over towards the waterfall when he looked down, he saw a goddess in human form.

Deeply toned olive skin and shimmering brown eyes that were flecked with gold with wavy light brown hair.

He knew that he should just turn around but a part of him couldn't.

"You have been told that spying on a lady who is swimming is inappropriate correct?" the girl called from the waters when her eyes caught him.

He blushed and nodded. Her eyes were sparkling with mischief and the smile seemed to make her face fill with such light.

"I will not tell if you will not." She giggled out. She didn't seem to be afraid of showing off as she began to dive back into the water, splashing around before coming up for air.

"Who are you?" He called over to her as he began the trek to meet her down there. He wanted to know who she was and she couldn't stop the smile from coming off her face.

"Elena. Elena Petrova."

Bianca sat beside him, hearing this part of their tragic love story made her look at her hands. She had dated Tyler but when she found out that he was using her to get in good with Caroline and Bonnie, she dumped him and cried her heart out.

She also ate an entire pint-or maybe four-of all of her favorite Ben & Jerry's Ice Creams that Jenna had stockpiled for her.

"We were married only four months later-back then, you had to wait for the custom six months-and on our one year anniversary we had a son, Kol." He was smiling as he kept remembering every good memory he had of his wife and family before they were taken away. "It was many years later that we had our twin daughters."

"Has the pain lessened?" She felt the tears sting in her eyes as he shook his head in the negative.

"The pain is still there." And will always be there he mentally added.

The two spoke for hours until Alaric came and decided to take her home and he just watched the water fade from the reddish orange glow to a soft bluish purple before fading into black and the sounds of Klaus' wolf howls sang to the moon.

He knew that Daniel would be cleaning up the Hybrid's messes.

It was their responsibility-they were the only undaggered elder siblings.

"Hello again." He turned his head and smiled at her for the first time in a thousand years.

"Elena."

She was back.


Author's notes: Originally, this wasn't going to be the end of the chapter but I thought 'it seems to fit a little better' and the next chapter is a time skip to Canon S3Ep13