"Okay...Question... do you know if he's hot?"
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" do you know who are they?" Katrina asked.
"The vamp..." Elena stopped and Katrina raised her eyebrows.
"Vamp...?" 'Maybe shock has done something to her brain, Katrina thought.
"How much do you know?" she said after a moment of hesitation.
"How much do I know... about this?" Katrina made invisible circles with her hands. Elena nodded.
"I don't even know what this is," Katrina said
"But if you didn't already know we are kidnapped," Katrina said slowly like she was telling that to a kid.
Elena didn't answer. She put her finger on her lips and pointed at the stairs. She signed her to stay quiet and to listen.
"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?" the girls heard.
"Who's that?" Katrina whispered.
"That's Trevor. There's a girl too."
"Okay... but who's Elijah?" she asked and Elena looked up at her and gave her a worried look.
"I have no idea."
Katrina looked at Elena for a while before she nodded. "Okay...Question... do you know if he's hot?" Katrina asked.
Elena frowned. "What? Why!" she violently shook her head.
Katrina just looked at her weirdly. "Why do you want to know if he's hot?!" she said looking at the elder of both look at her weirdly, "I want to know if he's good enough to die for, duh!"
Elena looked at her with big eyes. She had no idea what to make of her.
"Come," she told her and Katrina raised her eyebrows.
"Where are we going?" she followed her up the stairs. Elena put her finger back on her lips to tell her to stay silent. Trevor and the woman were close.
"Did he or did he not get the message?" Trevor asked again.
"They say he got it."
"Wonderful. And what?"
"So that's it, Trevor," Rose sighed, annoyed. "He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait."
Elena turned to look at Katerina and she waved at her to follow her without a word.
"It's not too late. We can leave her. We don't have to go through with this," Trevor said. He was obviously scared. Scared of Elijah. Which scared Elena.
Katrina was, of course, scared, any normal person will be, but she was curious too to meet this Elijah person.
"I'm sick of running," the woman told him.
"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying!"
"Elijah's old-school. If he accepts our deal, we're free."
Elena stepped on the creaky floor and both the vampires turned at the noise.
"You!" the woman walked towards them. Katrina took a step back. "There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out, you're wrong. Understand?" she eyed both of them.
"Who's Elijah?" Elena's eyes grew big as Katrina dared to ask the question. Rose looked at her like she was going to murder her right on the spot.
"He's your worst nightmare," she replied before she left the room.
Elena gasped at the answer. "We're so dead," she said.
" But I don't have nightmares," Katrina said looking like she was deep in thought.
"Let's go where we were, I am tired." she sighed and she took Elena's hand and they left the room.
"Where are we going?" Elena asked.
"They, of course, need you alive, they won't hurt you," Katrina answered.
"Me?" Elena echoed.
"Are you dumb? I've never been to this area before, and they don't even know me, of course, they are here for you. " Katrina said like she was speaking about the weather.
They found the woman in a room full of books.
"Why am I here?" Elena dared to ask.
The woman was getting annoyed and she sighed.
"You keep asking me questions like I'm gonna answer them."
"Why won't you?" Elena shrugged.
Katrina didn't say anything just watched what was happening.
"That's another one," the woman sighed. Katrina frowned when she saw the woman covering a window with a piece of cardboard.
"You got us, okay? It's not like we can go anywhere," Elena said as she stepped into the room. Katrina didn't follow her. Is she crazy? Or suicidal? Does she want to die? Even if she did, Katrina had no plans of dying for another fifty or something years.
"The least you can do is tell us what you want."
"I personally want nothing. I'm just a delivery service."
"Delivery to who? Elijah?"
The woman chuckled. "Two points to the eavesdropper. Can't you be more like your friend? She's at least quieter."
"Who is he? Is he a vampire?"
Katrina couldn't help but chuckle and both Elena and the other woman turned to look at her.
"He's one of the vampires. The Originals."
Katrina frowned and shook her head. Was she hearing right? Or maybe she was actually crazy like her best friend claimed.
"What do you mean the Originals?"
"What do you mean vampires?" Katrina asked.
"Doesn't your friend know? Haven't the Salvatores been teaching you vampire history? "
"Know what? ... And we're not friends...heck I've been in this town for one day only"
Elena sighed. "vampires are real," she told her completely ignoring the fact that she had just told someone of the existence of vampires.
"I know of them," the woman answered as she opened a book.
Katrina couldn't believe what she was hearing. Maybe she finally needed some medical help, maybe a psychiatrist.
"Vampires are real. That's so cool!" Katrina exclaimed.
Elena shook her head and completely ignored her as the woman turned to look at her with an amused look on her face.
"Who are the Originals?" Elena asked.
"Are they like Cullen's of Twilight?" Katrina said but nobody was paying attention.
The woman sighed, closed her book and turned around to face Elena.
"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired. We want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess," she explained.
Katrina was dumbfounded and she was staring at nothing, trying to understand what she was hearing.
"But why me?" Elena asked.
The woman sighed again. "Because you're a Petrova doppelgänger. You're the key to breaking the curse," she replied like it made sense.
Katrina was more and more confused. Doppelgänger? Curse? But there was no doppelganger or curse in Twilight.
"Curse?" Elena too was confused. "The Sun and the Moon curse?"
"You do know your history," the woman rolled her eyes.
"What do you mean, I'm the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse," Elena said.
"No. The moonstone is what binds the curse. Sacrifice is what breaks it."
"Sacrifice?" Elena repeated.
"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."
"Oh, God..." Katrina breathed out. They need medical help more than me, Katrina thought dumbfounded."I'm out of here," she said and turned around.
But suddenly Rose was just in front of her. Her face inches from hers. Katrina stepped back.
"You're not going anywhere," she said. "I need you to stay right here," she locked her eyes in Katrina's.
"Yeah, no thank you, I don't like both of you that much," she said and the woman frowned and pushed her again the wall.
"If you didn't know about vampires, how do you know about the vervain?" she asked.
"What? Vervain?..." Katrina tried to move away but the woman was way too strong. "Let me go!"
"Why can't I compel her?" the woman yelled at Elena.
"I have no idea. I don't know her!" she replied.
The woman looked at the struggling woman for a minute then sighed before she let go of her.
"If you try to run, I will kill you," she told her and veins started to appear below her eyes.
"Oh, God..." Katrina said as she pressed herself into the wall.
Now that was certainly scary, Katrina thought.
The woman walked back in the room where Elena was but she turned her head to look at Katrina, giving her a warning look.
Katrina had a hand on the wall and she was looking down at the floor.
"Tell me more," Elena asked as Trevor entered the room.
"Captivity's made her pushy, hey," Trevor said as he took a piece of cardboard. "What do you wanna know delicious?"
"Who are you running from?"
"The Originals," he answered.
"Yeah, she said that. Who are they?"
"The first family. The Old Wolrd. Rose and I pissed them off."
Rose cleared her throat.
"Correction. I pissed them off. Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead," he said and then threw a book at Elena's feet who stepped back.
"What did you do?" she asked.
"He made the same mistakes countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova," Rose told her.
Who's that? Katrina frowned.
"Katherine..." Elena said.
Does she know her?
Why is her name like me!? , Katrina thought.
"The one and only," she said. "The first Petrova doppelgänger."
"And I've... sorry, we've been marked ever since," Trevor completed Rose's explanation.
"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistakes again," Rose said and then they both left the room.
"What the cupcake!!" Katrina asked. "Doppelgänger? What... Who the hell are you?" she asked.
Elena looked up at her. "She looks exactly like me."
"Looks... So she's... a vampire... too?" Katrina asked and Elena nodded.
"And you are her carbon copy?"
"Yes."
"And Rose and... Trevor?" it took her a second to remember his name.
"Yes," Elena said then turned around. Katrina followed her in silence.
Vampires are real. And doppelgängers are.. too ...For Katrina, the supernatural world got more interesting.
Elena sat back down on the couch where they woke up earlier. There was a paper there.
"What is it?" Katrina asked Elena after she opened it and read its content. Elena placed a finger on her lips to tell her to stay quiet.
"It's a message from my friend Bonnie," she whispered and Katrina frowned. "My boyfriend and his brother are coming."
"Your friend? How..."
"She's a witch," Elena told her. It didn't seem like she wanted to explain more.
Katrina raised her eyebrows and then she sat down next to Elena.
Katrina didn't react to her friend being a witch, because she knew about them too, very closely.
They both stayed silent.
Waiting.
'So, vampires were real. Why didn't Anton ever told me that vampires were real? I am going to kick his butt when I get out of here,' Katrina thought.
After about an hour of waiting in silence, Rose came down the stairs and started packing. About half an hour after that, Trevor joined them in panic.
"He's here. This was a mistake!"
"No, I told you I would get us out of this. Trust me," Rose tried to calm him down.
"No," he yelled and Katrina jumped at the sudden scream. "He wants me dead, Rose!"
"He wants her more," she told him.
Katrina was pretty sure she was going to survive this. Sire, She didn't even know why she was there in the first place, but that's what made her safer than an unknown girl.
I really shouldn't have gone to this party, she thought.
"I can't do this," he said. "I can't. You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you! But I need to get out of here!"
"Hey!" she stopped him and took his hands in hers. "What are we?" she asked.
He took a deep breath and looked her in the eyes. "We're family," he replied. "Forever."
Katrina and Elena watched them together. It was almost cute, almost, Katrina thought.