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Chapter Two

Elena glanced at Katherine stunned and Caroline scowled. Isabella shot her sister one last glare before turning back to Elena. "The vampires who rescued you yesterday, who are they?"

Elena opened her mouth to answer but Caroline placed her hand on her friends shoulder shaking her head. Elena and Caroline had a stare down for a moment before Elena shook her off and answered.

There was something about Isabella that made Elena feel that she could be trusted. Elena told her about Stefan and Damon. She even offered to take her to the Boarding House. Isabelle sat in the backseat ignoring Caroline repeatedly telling Elena that this was a bad idea and that Stefan would not like it. Isabelle wanted to ask why Caroline was such a expert on her best friends boyfriend. When they pulled up Isabelle was out of the car and in the boarding house before either of the girls could move. Isabelle leaned against a wall near the exit and smirk. Rose was sat facing away from her on the couch with one vampire beside her, the other brother was facing the fireplace with his arm resting on the mantel. "Where was my invite?" Bella asked.

Rose stood spinning round and the vampire by the fireplace came at her. Isabelle leaned down, grabbing the small stake from her boot. She held it in front of her and he ran straight into it. Isabelle watched him sink to his knees and she stepped over him settling into a chair beside Rose. Caroline and Elena appeared at that moment. "So introductions? Rosemarie?"

Damon pulled the stake out and stood turning, walking back over to the fireplace. Elena and Caroline remained in the doorway. "Damon and Stefan Salvatore," she gestured to them.

"And you are?" Damon asked.

"Isabelle Petrova."

"Petrova?" Stefan asked. "As in..."

"Katerina, yes. My little sister."

"She never mentioned you," Damon accused.

"Of course she didn't, I was one of the people she was running from back in 1864. Now, I promised Barbie I'd tell you the whole story but I want something in return."

"And what would that be?" Damon questioned.

"You're promise you'll help me make Katerina pay for what she has done."

"And why would we do that?" Damon demanded.

"Because you need us as much as we need you," Isabelle stated.

"We?" Stefan asked

"Elijah and I."

Damon smirked smugly at her. "Sorry to be the one to break it to you sweetheart, but your boyfriend is out of action."

"Because you staked him? Hardly, Elijah is an original. He's not dead." No need to correct him on the boyfriend comment, if he wanted to make half baked assumptions that was his choice.

"You're lying!" Damon hissed.

"She's not, I assure you," came Elijah's voice from behind him. Isabelle smirked at the brothers shocked expressions.

"How...?" Stefan trailed off.

Elijah ignored him as he moved to stand beside Isabella. He swooped down brushing a kiss across her forehead. "Hello, darling," he greeted, a mischievous gleam in his eye. He must have heard Damon's statement. Isabelle let out a loud laugh and Elijah sat on the arm of the chair.

"He means no harm, I promise. We came to offer you a deal."

"And why would we take a deal from you."

Isabelle rolled my eyes already bored with the older Salvatore. "Because we want Klaus dead just as much as you do."

"I don't understand you want Klaus dead but you killed Trevor for betraying him and you want Katherine to pay too," Elena spoke up.

"We each have our own reasons for wanting Katerina dead," Elijah answered.

"After my sister bore her illegitimate child my father took the baby away. He told us he had killed the child but it would appear that was a lie," Isabelle said eyeing Elena. "Katerina and I were sent to England. My father arranged a marriage for me so I could keep an eye on my sister. I married Trevor just days after we arrived. I had hoped what happened in Bulgaria would curb my sisters flirtatious behaviour but it only served to make her more reckless. We had been there little more than a month before Trevor introduced us to Lord Niklaus Mikealson and his brother, Elijah," Isabelle recounted the last months of her human life. The silence in the room was deafening at this revelation.

"Yes, Klaus is my brother," Elijah stated.

Elena was the one to speak. "We heard that, I'm just processing."

Elijah smirked. "I'm a little behind on the times but I believe the term your looking for is OMG."

"There's a whole family of Originals?" Elena asked.

"My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children."

"So your parents were human?" Stefan asked.

"Our whole family was, our origin as vampires is a very long story. Just know we're the oldest vampires in the world. We are the original family and from us all vampires were created."

"Right, but Klaus is your brother?" Damon questioned. "And you want him dead?"

Elijah took a deep breath. "In case you hadn't already gathered it is nearly impossible to kill an original. Sun doesn't harm us, fire won't work, neither will werewolf bites which are fatal to normal vampires only the wood from one tree can be used against us. My family made sure that tree burned."

"But witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth, so they collected some ash from the tree when it burned. They also made some very special silver blades that the ash will stick to. Dip the blade in the ash and drive into the heart of Original and they are more of less dead but it has to stay there," Isabelle explained. "Every creature has to have a weakness to maintain the balance."

"That doesn't make sense," Elena stated. "If Originals are immune to the Sun then why is does Klaus what to break the Sun and Moon Curse so bad?"

Elijah smirked at the Doppelganger. "The curse of the Sun and the Moon. Its all so biblical sounding don't you think?"

"What's so funny?" Elena asked.

"My brother was the one who created most of the documents containing information on the curse."

"Hang on," Stefan spoke up. "Klaus drew the Aztec sketches about the curse?"

"Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings and any other cultural continent we felt like planting it in," Elijah stated.

"But why?" Damon asked.

"They easiest way to discover the existence of a Doppelganger or to get your hands on some long lost moonstone is to have every single member of two waring species on the look out for them," Isabelle clued them in smiling smugly.

"So its not Aztec at all?" Caroline questioned.

"The curse of the Sun and the Moon is fake," Elijah stated with his usual calmness. "It doesn't exist."

"What?" everyone else in the room asked simultaneously.

"Klaus and I faked the Sun and Moon curse dating back over a thousand years."

"But if there's no curse-" Elena began but Isabelle cut across her.

"Oh, there's a curse just not that one. The real one is much worse. It's curse that was placed on Klaus himself."

"What are you talking about?" Stefan asked.

"Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years," Elijah continued. "And you are his only hope." He looked pointedly at Elena.

"Well, what is this curse?"

"My family was quite close but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my fathers son, my mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret, Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course when my father discovered this he hunted down and he killed my mothers lover and his entire family, not realizing of course that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day."

"A war between the species?" Elena questioned sounding confused.

"The Vampires and the Werewolves."

"So Klaus's real father was from a werewolf bloodline? What does that make Klaus? A werewolf or a vampire?"

"He's both," Elijah answered.

"Both?" Stefan and Damon asked at the same time.

"Yes, both," Elijah repeated. "A Hybrid deadlier than any werewolf or vampire, nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches of nature saw to it that my brothers werewolf side would become dormant."

"That's the curse that Klaus want's to break?"

"He wants to trigger that part of him that's a werewolf. If allowed Klaus would sire his own blood line, he would build his own race endangering not just vampires but everyone."

"But you helped him," Elena stated.

"I helped him because I loved him. That's changed now, he must die."

"That right there. That doesn't make sense why would you want to kill him?"

"The witch who caged my brothers werewolf side was our mother. Klaus was furious when he found out, so furious that he confronted our mother and ripped her heart clean from her chest."

"So you want revenge?" Stefan asked. Elijah looked at him impassively and nodded.

"But you mentioned daggers, we can kill him," Elena suggested.

"When a werewolf is wounded by silver it heels," Isabelle explained. "And an Original can't be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger. So you see the problem, the dagger does not work."

"So your saying Klaus can't be killed?" Stefan asked us both.

"There is one way to kill any supernatural creature," Isabelle told him. "At the hands of the servants of nature themselves."

"A witch," Stefan stated. "But what witch would be strong enough to take on Klaus?"

"That would be me," Isabelle said.

"What?" Damon asked.

"Katerina and I come from a line of witches, but powers we're only passed on to the first born daughter. I kept mine because the blood that made me a vampire was the blood of an Original."

"So you're powerful enough to take down Klaus?" asked Damon.

"Not alone, no," she told him. "There is a site somewhere here in Mystic Falls, you will know of it Damon. Where Emily Bennett was hung for witch craft, years before hundred of witches we're killed in the exact same spot, the founders I believe thought it would be poetic if Emily was killed in the same place. If I can tap into that power then I can channel it."

"The curse must be broken during the full moon when Klaus is in transition. That is when he will be most vulnerable, Isabelle will have enough power to weaken Klaus enough for me to kill him. There is one more thing you should know, when Katerina was human the witches made an Elixir. This Elixir would bring the Doppelganger back after the sacrifice."

"You have something that could save Elena's life?" Stefan asked.

"Yes," Elijah answered.

"But why would we even need it?" Caroline asked.

"Klaus can only be killed when in transition and for that to happen so must the Sacrifice."

"You must understand, Elena," Isabelle spoke. "Obviously no one has ever tested the Elixir and there is no guarantee it will work, you should consider your other options first. This is a last resort."

"Other options?" Elena asked.

"Being turned," Isabelle stated. Stefan and Elena shared a long look and she sensed she had hit a nerve. "There is one more piece of information you must know before you make this decision. We are going to do everything in our power to kill Klaus, but should it go wrong and he survives he is going to need you alive."

"What do you mean?" Stefan asked.

"When Elijah's mother created the curse she put on Klaus she made a loop hole that would ensure if he ever broke it he would not be able to make anymore hybrids. Your blood is the only thing that will make them survive, if you survive as a human you'll never be free of Niklaus." Elena nodded that she understood. This information changed things.

"Okay, we'll talk. So where does this leave Katherine?"

Isabelle smirked up at Elijah before looking back at Elena. "I have spend over 500 years wondering the best way to make my sister pay for what she did. To break his curse Klaus needs to sacrifice a werewolf and a vampire as well as the Doppelganger. What could be more poetic than Katerina still being used in the very ritual she died to escape all those years ago? So my sister needs to stay where she is until Klaus comes."

"And how do you know Klaus will come?" Elena asked.

"Because I am going to send for him," Isabelle stated.

A/N: Edited and re-posted 18/08/14. Violet x