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Rose
A black car drove into a deserted field and stopped next to another parked car. The driver of the later car open his door and walked up to the black car. The window rolled down slightly to reveal a man in a black cap and sunglasses.
"Where is she?" The man in the car demanded.
"In the trunk. I did exactly what you said. But there was another" the man replied
"Another? Just put her in the back as well then" The man in the cap instructed. The other man walked to his trunk and brought Elena out, placing her in the boot of the larger car. He then brought Alex over and placed her next to her sister. "Thank you for your help." The man in the car said.
"Is there anything else?" The other man replied, obviously having been compelled.
"One more thing." The capped man said "Come closer. Please" The man outside has to obey and walked towards the car. The window rolled all the way down and the man repeated "Closer" before biting into the man's neck and draining him dry. He let the body drop to the ground and rolled the window up again. He reversed and started on his journey.
I woke up on a broken couch next to Elena. I groaned and held my head as she sat up to face me. "Alex! Are you alright? Are you hurt?" She asked scanning me for any signs of wounds. I held my throbbing head and sat up a bit.
"No, I'm fine Elena, just a sore head. Most likely from where I fell last night. Or I maybe partying too hard" I managed to chuckle out. "Where are we?" I asked
"I don't know, but these vampires kidnapped us. Their names are Trevor and Rose but that's all I know." She replied. I took a second to look at my surroundings. We were in a large room that once must have been glamourous but time had taken its toll. The windows were boarded up so it made a perfect place for a vampire hideout and smelled faintly of rot. I took Elena's hand.
"We'll be fine sis." I said looking in her eyes. I could tell she was scared. She was the oldest out of us and it made her feel like she needed to protect me, to be strong for me. Yet I could see this was really freaking her out and I knew it was my turn to be the responsible one for a change. "There's a reason they took us. They won't hurt us" I promised.
"I trust you" She told me looking in my eyes. "I told them I wasn't Katherine but they still wanted me." "You're the doppleganger Elena. Everyone seems to want you at one point or another." I said trying to lighten up a bad situation.
"I feel so loved" She replied.
"Think how I feel" I scoffed. We heard voices in the hallway and Elena turned to me.
"Pretend to be sleeping again" She said as she did the same thing on the opposite end of the couch. I nodded and lay back down, closing my eyes.
"How are the girls?" A female voice asked. I guessed this was Rose.
"Still passed out." The man, Trevor, replied.
"You didn't touch them did you?"
"Give me some credit. Besides the small one smells, different." I opened my eyes at that point and so did Elena. We looked at each other and sat up again.
"Different how?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. Just different." He replied. "So have you called him?" He asked. I looked at Elena and mouthed "him" but she just shook her head as a sign that she didn't know.
"No I called one of his contacts. You know how this works" Rose replied. The guy the were looking for was obviously very hard to find.
"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" Trevor asked impatiently. We both stood up at the mention of this new man's name and walked towards the hallway they were in. Elena took the lead and put her finger over her lips. I nodded and we walked up the stairs and stopped to listen.
"They say he got it" Rose replied
"Wonderful, so what?" Trevor asked as we inched our way towards the front of the house.
"So that's it Trevor. He either got it or he didn't, we just have to wait." Rose said in annoyance. We edged further into the house as they continued talking.
"Look its not too late, we can leave them here. We don't have to go through with it." Trevor said with some fear in his voice. A look of confusion crossed my face. How dangerous was this Elijah guy that other vampires were scared of him.
"I'm sick of running" Rose replied.
"Yeah, well running keeps us from dying." Trevor rebuffed. Elena looked back at me. This Elijah guy was obviously more powerful than these two if they were scared he would kill them.
"Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free" Rose replied. I tried not to scoff and rolled my eyes instead. It was very hard to trust a vampire. They were notorious for back stabbing. Take Katherine for example. Elena took a step forward and a floorboard creaked. I sighed and closed my eyes knowing we were caught.
"You" Rose shouted at us. "There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of here you're tragically wrong, understand?" I crossed my arms and lent on the wall behind Elena.
"Who's Elijah?" She asked
"Why are you so afraid of him?" I added raising an eyebrow. Rose looked at me and glared.
"He's your worst nightmare" She said and stalked off.
"Way to be cryptic." I told Elena, getting closer.
"Maybe if we talk to them, they'll give us more information." She replied
"Yeah, because that's worked so well so far. Look, if they don't want to talk to us there's not much we can do to change their minds" I sighed and walked back into the room with the couch. I was still dressed in my masquerade ball clothes and my feet were aching from the heels I was wearing. Elena sighed and followed me.
"What do you think he's going to do with us." She asked not looking at me as we sat on the couch.
"I tend not to dwell on the depressing and inevitable darkness of life. It just bums me out. Why not think about the food we're gonna get when we get out of here" I said rubbing my sore feet.
"You're not being helpful Alex." Elena moaned.
"No Elena I'm being realistic. Whatever chance we have of escaping right now is very thin. There is this big bad Elijah out to get us and we can't run away because there is no where to run away to. I just don't want to face the fact that I could die any time." I said standing up from the couch and taking a walk in my bare feet, relieved from the pain of my high heels. Elena looked up at me.
"Be careful, we don't know what's on this floor." She told me. I turned to face her.
"Elena Gilbert. Ever the buzz kill!" I replied
We walked into the room where Rose was fixing the place up a bit to make it look nicer.
"Why are we here?" Elena asked.
"You keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." Rose replied. I crossed my arms again.
"I told you so" I said to Elena. She just turned round and glared at me before refocussing her attention on Rose who was boarding up more windows.
"Why won't you?" Elena tried
"That's another one" Rose replied. I rolled my eyes and scoffed.
"Now I'm bored" I said walking further into the room.
"Look, you got us. It's not like we can go anywhere, the least you can do is tell us what you want with us." Elena said sighing and following me into the room.
"We don't want your sister. This has nothing to do with her." Rose replied look at me.
"Then why the hell am I here?" I asked unfolding my arms.
"Because Trevor compels incompetent humans." She responded.
"Great. Thanks." I said sarcastically.
"And personally I want nothing from you either Elena, I'm just a delivery service" Rose said ignoring me. Why does everyone seem to do that?
"Delivery to who?" Elena asked.
"Erm...Elijah maybe?" I offered. "Pay attention Elena" I scoffed. She glared at me. Rose chuckled.
"Two points to the eavesdropper." Rose said. I raised an eyebrow.
"Who is he? Is he a vampire?" Elena asked.
"He's one of the vampires." Rose responded. "The originals." I felt a slight prick on the inside of my head when Rose said 'originals' but I brushed it off as Elena continued to speak.
"What do you mean the originals?" Elena asked.
"Just going butt in here but I think she means the first ever vampires? That's what original usually means. Am I right?" I said turning to Rose.
"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatore brothers been teaching you your vampire history?" Rose said.
"Ah that's a question and we won't answer it." I said crossing my arms and smirking. Rose turned to face me from where she was sorting books and raised her eyebrow.
"So you know Stefan and Damon" Elena said as more of a statement.
"I know of them. A hundred years back a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. More of a sucker for the bad one though, but I digress" Rose told us.
"I know how you feel, I've always like a bad boy more. They just seem more appealing. Elena here likes the safely and security. Child's play if you ask me." I replied. Rose just smiled at me. Elena walked forward again, agitation clear on her face.
"Who are the originals?" She asked.
"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years." Rose said and I whistled lowly. "We're tired. We want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."
"But why me?" Elena asked. I huffed. Hadn't we just gone over this?
"Because you're a Petrova Doppleganger. You're the key to breaking the curse" Rose said. This part was new to me.
"What curse?" I asked my interest piqued.
"The sun and the moon curse?" Elena asked.
"Oh that curse. With so many curses flying around its hard to keep track" I said. Rose rolled her eyes.
"You do know your history."
"What do you mean I'm the key?" Elena asked. "The moonstone is what breaks the curse"
"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it" Rose replied. I walked over to Elena and placed my hand on her arm.
"Sacrifice?" I asked, scared for my twin's safety.
"The blood of the doppleganger. You're the doppleganger. Which means in order to break the curse, you're the one who has to die." My eyes widened. How could Rose seem so calm about this. My sister was going to die?
"Tell me more" Elena said. I had walked over to where Trevor had walked into the room, not wanting to hear more about my twin sister's impending death.
"Captivity's made her pushy eh?" Trevor asked. I smirked.
"You should see her at home" I said chuckling. He smiled.
"I like this one. Can we keep her?" He asked to Rose, I smirked.
"No." Rose replied. Trevor sighed and picked up another board to block yet another window. Those things were everywhere.
"What do you want to know doppleicious?" He asked.
"Who are you running from?" Elena asked
"The originals" Trevor replied
"That's the original vampires, incase you didn't know" I told Elena mockingly. Trevor smirked.
"Yeah she said that, what does that mean?" Elena asked, ignoring my comment and glaring at me.
"The first family" Trevor said, kicking a random bucket across the room. "Of the old world. Rose and I pissed them off." I looked to Rose and she look annoyed. She cleared her throat and Trevor continued. "Correction, I pissed them off. Rose had my back and for over a millennium they've wanted us dead." He said chucking a book he had picked up at Elena. I let out a laugh and covered my hand with my mouth. Trevor looked at me and smiled.
"What did you do?" Elena asked. As Trevor looked over at her the smile fell from his face.
"He made the same mistake others did." Rose answered for him. "He trusted Katerine Petrova."
"Katherine?" Elena asked.
"Hmm, the one and only." Rose replied. "The first Petrova Doppleganger" She walked away.
"I helped her escape her fate, and now I've, sorry we've, been marked ever since" Trevor said.
"I'm sorry" I said to him, feeling bad for him. After all, all he did was try to help someone. Elena gave me a disbelieve look and Trevor gave me a gentle smile.
"Which is why we're not going to make the same mistake again." Rose said from the doorway, signaling for Trevor to follow her. He walked passed us and placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"What was that?" Elena hissed at me when they had left the room.
"They can probably still hear you know." I replied, going over to the table of books.
"I don't care. Why are you flirting with the people who kidnapped us?" He demanded
"I wasn't flirting. I felt bad for him. He has been running for centuries because he helped one girl 500 years ago. If that doesn't break your heart then you've not got one" I replied.
"He's the one who's going to hand me over to Elijah" Elena hissed
"I know and that's not right of him, but I still feel bad for the guy." I replied, closing the book I was looking at and walking towards the door to go and get my shoes from the other room.
"You're my twin, you're supposed to be on my side." Elena said quietly. I sighed.
"I am on your side Elena. But that doesn't mean I don't have compassion for others too. You should know what I mean." I said and left Elena alone.
I sat on the sofa and stared at my nails and Elena walked into the room and sat beside me. We didn't speak but Elena felt something under her. She unfolded the paper and smiled as she read it. She passed it my way and I sighed a breath of relief.
Stefan and Damon are coming for you. -B
Rose walked around picking things up off the floor and tidying up a bit.
"Why are you bothering to tidy up?" I asked curious. She didn't even bother replying to me. I huffed and slid closer to Elena as Trevor came in the room.
"He's here." He said hurriedly, fear evident in his voice. "This was a mistake"
"No I told you I would get us out of this, you have to trust me" Rose said trying to calm him down.
"No! He want's me dead Rose." Trevor replied pacing around the room.
"He wants her more. And her twin is something extra as well."
"I can't do this. You give them to him, he'll have mercy on you, but I have to get out of here" Trevor panicked. Rose made her way over to him and grabbed his wrists.
"Hey." Rose said. "What are we?" She asked. Trevor sighed and took a few deep breaths.
"We're family" he replied. "Forever"
The look on his face nearly broke my heart and Elena and I glanced at each other. She held out her hand and I took it. Just seeing how close Rose and Trevor were made us see how petty all of our arguments have been. There was three loud knocks on the door and Elena and I jumped in surprise. Trevor and Rose looked to where the door was and took a deep breath.
"You're scared" Elena said as Rose looked over at us.
"Stay here with them, and don't make a sound." Rose told Trevor. I stood up and made my way towards Trevor as Rose left to get the door. I stood next to him and placed my hand on his shoulder for comfort.
"It's going to be alright" I said to him, praying that it would be. I had seen too much death in my life and I didn't want to see anymore tonight.
"You don't know that." Trevor said, placing his hand on mine. "But thank you anyway" I nodded and let go, walking back over to Elena. She took my hand in hers and looked at me.
"I don't understand why you did that. But it was very kind of you." She told me. I just smiled and looked back up at Trevor.
We heard footsteps coming from the hallway and all took a deep breath. Elena stood up and started pacing, holding the crumpled letter from Bonnie in her hands. The footsteps stopped and I looked up to see a man dress impeccably well in a suit stare Elena down. In seconds he was in front of her and I jumped up off the couch. Elena took a step backwards and Elijah followed. He leant in close to her neck and I fought back the urge to scream for her. He took a deep breath and returned to his upright position.
"Human" He breathed looking down at her. "It's impossible." Elena looked as if she was about to break down. "Hello there" I walked up to him, eyes narrowed.
"Back off" I said standing next to Elena. I wasn't scared of him. The worst he could do is kill me and death was one thing I wasn't afraid of. He looked at me for the first time and something flashed through his eyes.
"And who is this?" He asked
"This is Alexandra Gilbert. The Doppleganger's fraternal twin" Rose replied for me.
"A twin you say?" Elijah said. He leaned in to smell me as well but he faltered halfway. He stood back up straight and looked right into my eyes. "What are you?" he asked
"She's human, and she has nothing to do with this." Elena said, feeling very protective all of a sudden. I scoffed and rolled my eyes.
"Having a sibling tiff already?" Elijah mocked. "What are you?" He repeated
"I don't know what you mean" I said utterly confused. I was a normal 17 year old girl.
"Interesting. You believe you are human. But I know better" He said to me.
"What do you mean? I am human" I bit out. Elijah just smirked at me and looked back at Elena
"Well we have a long journey ahead of use, we should be going" He said and looked at me. "You intrigue me." He said walking towards me. "You will be coming with us"
"Please, please don't let him take us." Elena called out to Rose.
"One last piece of business, then we're done." Elijah said turning to face Trevor
"I have waited, so long for this day Elijah. I am truly, very sorry" Trevor said, shaking in fear.
"Well you're apology's not necessary" He replied calmly, pacing around Trevor
"Yes, yes it is. You trusted me with Katerina, and I failed you" Trevor replied looking nervously at the floor.
"Well yes you are the guilty one. Rose aided you because she was loyal to you, now that I honour." Elijah paused, facing Trevor "Where was your loyalty?"
"I beg your forgiveness" Trevor begged.
"So granted" Elijah replied. Trevor's face look so relieved and I couldn't help but break into a smile. He deserved forgiveness. Suddenly Elijah drew his arm back and smacked Trevor's head off his shoulders. Rose and I let out screams of terror. Rose for her fallen partner, mine for a man who didn't deserve to die.
"He didn't deserve to die Elijah" I screamed at him. Elijah just calmly wiped his hand clean of blood. Rose tried to charge him but Elijah was quick to notice.
"Don't Rose" He said. "Now that you are free" He put the cloth back in his trouser pocket and made his way back towards Elena and I. Silent tears ran down my face. Elijah came over and wiped my tears with the pad of his thumb. "He's not worth your tears" He told me. He turned to face Elena again. "Come" he demanded.
"What about the moonstone?" Elena asked, trying to keep her composure. Elijah stopped
"What do you know about the moonstone?" He demanded.
"I know that you need it. And I know where it is" Elena stuttered out.
"Elena" I warned.
"Yes" Elijah said ignoring me.
"I can help you get it." She replied.
"Elena!" I hissed. Elijah rolled his eyes and grabbed me, pressing my back against his chest and placing a hand over my mouth but leaving me able to breath through my nose. Elena gasped and took a step backwards.
"Tell me where it is" He said, easily able to hold me in place. He was so strong.
"That's not how it works." Elena said. "Especially when you're holding my sister like that" He looked down at me and sighed.
"Are you negotiating with me?" He asked looking at Rose as well.
"Its the first I've heard of it" Rose replied still heartbroken. Elijah stared Elena down and glanced to her neck. He sighed again and with the hand he wasn't using to keep me quiet he grabber Elena's necklace. "What is this vervain doing around your neck?" He asked rhetorically as he ripped the chain and threw it away. He grabbed her head with his free hand and forced her to look at him. "Tell me where the moonstone is" He compelled Elena
"In the tomb underneath the church ruins" She said in a monotone. I screamed under Elijah's hand.
"What is it doing there?" He asked
"Its with Katherine." Elena again replied. I sighed in defeat.
"Interesting" Elijah said. A crash was heard from somewhere in the house and Elijah let go of Elena, keeping me in his grip.
"What is that?" He asked looking to the ceiling
"I don't know" Rose replied
"Who else is in this house?" He asked impatiently
"I don't know" Rose said again. He grabbed Elena and dragged us towards the steps. He took us upstairs and shouted at Rose.
"Move!" He commanded. We made our way back to the foyer of the mansion as someone kept running past us. I instantly knew it was Damon and Stefan as no one else knew where we were. Elijah shoved Elena and I into the arms of Rose so he would be able to fight. "Rose?" he asked cautiously
"I don't know who it is" She said shakily, seemingly very scared.
"Up here" A voice said. Elijah sped upstairs to find the owner of the voice.
"Down here" a second voice said from the lower levels of the house. Elijah turned around, very annoyed now. A stake was shot through the air into Elijah's hand. He didn't even flinch, he just pulled it back out.
I felt someone grab onto my waist and lift me up, dragging me into a different room. I looked up to see Damon hovering over me, his hand to my lips keeping me from saying anything. He gave me a knowing look and I nodded to him.
"Excuse me. To whom it may concern" Elijah shouted out. "You're making a grave mistake if you think you can beat me. You can't" He said proudly going towards a coat hanger and breaking off the pegs. "You hear that? I repeat. You cannot beat me. So I want the girls, on the count of three. Or heads will roll." he broke the coat hanger in half to create a very large stake. "Do we understand each other?" He said looking around the room.
"I'll come with you." Elena said from upstairs. I protested against Damon's hand and he shushed me, glaring. "Just please don't hurt my sister or my friends. They just wanted to help me out." Elijah sped up the stairs and Elena jumped back in surprise.
"What game are you playing with me?" He asked. Elena smirked and set off the vervain grenade. It hit Elijah square in the face and he let out a yell of pain but he healed in seconds. He continued walking up the stairs towards Elena but Stefan was down the stairs shooting at him with a crossbow. Elijah just kept coming.
Stefan didn't know what else to do but tackle, so he sent himself and Elijah down the stairs. Elijah was up in a minute but before he could do anything to Stefan, Damon staked Elijah with the coat hook and ran him right into the door. Rose came out from her hiding spot and looked at Elijah before running away. Damon made to go after her but Elena stopped him.
"Just let her go" She said to Damon, smiling and coming down the stairs. Damon looked ecstatic when he thought she was going to him but Stefan appeared next to him and took her in his arms.
"Hey, come here, you hurt? You okay?" He asked. I stepped out of the room I was hiding in and saw the look on Damon's face. I sighed and ran into his arms. He looked shocked for a second then wrapped his arms around me and lifted me off the floor.
"Thank you for coming." I said to him.
"I'll always come for you." He said, also looking at Elena over my shoulder. He let me go and Stefan let Elena go. He turned to face me and smiled. I ran over to him and jumped into Stefan's arms.
"God Alex, I'm so glad you're ok. I was worried sick!" He whispered.
"I'm fine Stefan. Thank you." I said to him. He let me go and placed his hand on my cheek. He kissed the top of my head.
"I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you." He said looking at me. His eyes trailed over to Elena. "To either of you." He said. Elena smiled and I hugged Stefan again.
Elena and I made our way back into our house and up the stairs to our rooms. I saw Jeremy come out of his room and he stopped. "Alex!" He shouted. In seconds I was in my younger brother's arms and being spun around the landing. "I'm so happy you're alright. I hated waiting around to see if you were coming back. Thank God you're alive" He said holding onto me tightly.
"I won't be if you don't let me go! Need to breathe Jer." I said with a chuckle. He smiled and let me go.
"I thought I'd lost you. I couldn't deal with losing you too, Alex. You're my rock" He said cupping my face.
"I'm never going to leave you Jer." I promised. "I love you bro!" We smiled and hugged once more. I turned around to where Bonnie was hugging Elena.
"You ok?" Jeremy asked Elena
"I'm ok." She said. She looked at Bonnie. "We got your message." Bonnie smiled and came over to me and gave me a hug while Elena hugged Jeremy.
"Thank you Bon" I said.
"Anytime" Bonnie replied though her tears.
I was just coming out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth when I spotted Damon in Elena's room. He kissed her forehead and caught my eye. I looked at him questioningly and he shook his head slightly. I blinked and he was gone. I made my way into my room and stopped to see him in there on my bed.
"What was that about?" I asked him, sitting next to him.
"I love her Alex." He sighed.
"I know, everyone seems to." I nodded.
"She's just so different from Katherine. She's perfect." He told me. I flopped backwards on the bed.
"Yeah, she's amazing alright." I said feeling more and more worse about myself. He looked back at me.
"I don't mean that, I love you too, Alex." He said and I huffed. "Its just in a different way. I would die for you, you know that." He said taking my hand.
"I know. But if it came to a choice between her and me, we all know who you'd pick. We all know who everyone would pick." I said remembering what Elijah had told me. Too bad he was dead, I would like to have known what he was on about. Damon said nothing.
"Am I real to you?" I asked Damon.
"What do you mean? Of course you're real. You're right here aren't you?" He told me. I just sighed.
"I need some sleep Damon, it was a really eventful day." I said hating the fact I was the least favoured twin. He nodded and left without any hesitation. I sighed and curled into my pillows, one thought constantly bouncing around in my head.
Was I human?
So chapter 2 guys, now we're into the interesting plot. What's going on with Alex? Tell me what you think! R&R and I'll see you at the next update, reviews make me work faster! :)
