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"Wakey, wakey," I heard somebody say.
I sat up immediately recognising the voice not to belong to Elijah. Stephan stood at the end of the bed. Perve!
"So what were you? Elijah's pet?" he guessed. I scoffed.
"I was his friend, and he was mine," I replied.
"Well you don't seem overly upset considering that my brother and I staked him," Stephan pointed out.
"I am upset. Over the years I've learnt not to show it," I sighed.
"'Over the years?'" he repeated.
"You said you and your brother turned 145 years ago?" I asked and Stephan nodded. "I became an immortal in 1839," I explained.
"You … you what?" Stephan said sounding very confused. "You're not a vampire," he said.
"I never said I was, I said that I was an immortal. The word 'vampire' never crossed my mouth," I replied.
"So you're not a vampire but you're immortal and you hang out with original vampires," Stephan concluded.
"Original vampire," I corrected. "I've never met Elijah's siblings and I don't particularly want to."
"And why is that?" Stephan asked.
"From what Elijah has told me about them, they're not all that friendly," I replied.
"And so if I told you that this town is probably going to get a visit from Klaus what would you say?" Stephan asked.
"I'd say 'Your town is bloody screwed,' I'm considering the fact that Klaus killed his siblings and buried them in the ocean," I replied.
Stephan nodded his head, processing the information that I had just given him. He sighed deeply and walked over to the window.
"You know a lot about the originals?" he asked.
"Um, I know a lot about Elijah and the few stories that Elijah shared with me," I replied not wanting to give too much away.
"Okay, come downstairs. We have a visitor who can tell us more," Stephan said.
"So I guess I'm stuck with you for however long," I murmured.
I got off the bed and put my hair into a ponytail as I followed Stephan out of the room. I made sure that I had my bag with me, there was no way that I was going to leave it where somebody could look through it and find my phone.
I followed Stephan into the living room where I sat down on the couch. Damon and Rose were already in there. Rose froze when she saw me.
"You?" she murmured.
"Hello Rose," I said as I pulled my knees up to my chest.
The doorbell rang and Damon, Rose and Stephan disappeared. A few seconds later they appeared with Elena who sat down next to me. She looked tense and not happy, she kept eyeing Rose.
"Okay you have to understand that I only know what I've picked up over the years and I don't know what's true and what's not," Rose explained. "That's the problem with all this vampire crap. But Klaus, I know is real."
"Who is he?" Elena asked.
She didn't know who Klaus was? Whoa!
"He's one of the originals, he's a legend," Damon smiled.
"From the first generation of vampires," Stephan said to Elena.
"Like Elijah?" Elena asked.
"No. Elijah was the Easter Bunny compared to Klaus. He was a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal," Rose explained.
"Klaus is known to be the oldest," Stephan said.
That wasn't true, Elijah was actually a year or two older than Klaus but Klaus was defiantly stronger. I decided not to share that information, it would make them less terrified and where was the fun in that?
"Okay," Elena said making a gesture for them to stop. "You're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after me?" Elena asked.
"Yes," Rose said at exactly the same time as Stephan said, "No."
"What they're saying is, I mean, if what she's saying is true-" Damon started.
"Which it is," Rose interrupted.
"And you're not just saying it so we don't kill you-" Damon continued but was interrupted again. Damon moved to stand next to Rose as he spoke.
"Which I'm not," Rose interrupted.
"Then we're looking at a solid maybe," Damon concluded.
"Look Elijah's dead, right?" Stephan pointed out. "So no one else even knows that you exist," Stephan said as he got up and walked over to Elena.
"Not that you know of," Rose said.
"That's not helping," Damon said to Rose.
"Look I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him," Stephan said. "I mean we're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction. We don't know what's real, I mean for all we know he could just be some sort of stupid bedtime story or something," Stephan said to Elena.
"Wrong. Elijah has laid eyes on him and so had Katerina Patrova. You've met both of them and Klaus is not 'a stupid bedtime story or something' considering that he killed his own siblings," I pointed out.
"He's real and he doesn't give up. If he wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid of Klaus, then you're an idiot," Rose added backing me up.
"All right we're shaking, you've made your point," Damon said.
Elena got up off the sofa and began to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Stephan asked.
"School, I'm late," she said.
"Let me grab my stuff, I'll go with you," Stephan said.
"That's alright, I know where it is," Elena replied.
"She's in denial," Damon said to Rose as Elena left the room.
"Shut up, Damon," Stephan said.
After all of that I sat on the couch for a while but then Rose started crying, I wasn't good at being around people who were crying so I went upstairs to my room. I got out my sketchbook and began to sketch a drawing of a flying eagle.
I nearly jumped out of my skin when Damon came in.
"Come on you, we're going on trip," Damon said to me.
"Where?" I asked.
"You'll find out," Damon replied.
I defiantly didn't like this guy. I felt so small and ignored. It was almost like I didn't exist.
I followed Damon out of the room. I sighed, I was seriously bored. Rose, Damon and I all got into the black truck and Rose drove. The most I managed to get out of Damon and Rose was that we were going to meet someone called Slater.
The journey was long and very boring. I sat alone in that back whilst Rose drove and Damon asked Rose questions. Eventually I got out my phone and texted Elijah.
'Meeting somebody called Slater at a café somewhere, they're trying to get as much info as possible –Marie xx'
'I think I know where that is –Elijah'
I sighed and leant back in the leather seat. I was very bored. I listened to my music and looked out of the window like I usually did when I was on a long journey with Elijah. I didn't understand why Elijah couldn't just come and get me. I felt so ignored and lonely.
Eventually Rose pulled into a multi-storey car park and parked to car. We all got out of the car and looked at the small door in front of us.
"Back entrance how convenient," Damon said as he got out of the car and walked towards the door. Rose and I followed him.
"That's the point we can't all have little daylight rings," Rose said.
"How do you know this 'Slater' guy is even here?" Damon asked.
"I called him. He's here, he's always here," Rose answered.
Sado, who spends their whole time in a bar? Okay maybe a few people but still. Why? Unless you owned the bar or worked there, that was acceptable.
"Good, just one thing," Damon said before using his vampire speed and pinning Rose to a car park pillar. "If you are setting me up in any way, I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat," Damon said casually. "It's something I'm very good at."
I smirked at the vampire. Then Rose used her vampire strength and speed to pin Damon to the car. I smiled at them both.
"I'm older that you, and stronger. Don't get on my bad side," Rose warned him before letting him go. "You can trust me," Rose said before turning around and walking in through the back entrance.
We walked up to the bar and sat down.
"Whoa, what about the sunlight?" Damon asked looking at the shop windows which covered the whole of the shop wall.
"Double-paned and tempered, UV rays can't penetrate," Rose explained. "You see the appeal now?" She asked.
She did have a point. Somewhere where vampires could come out in the day time and pretend to be human was probably pretty appealing.
"That and the free WI-FI," said a man as he walked up to us.
I guessed that that was Slater as Rose turned to face him
"Hey, how are you?" Rose asked as she gave him a hug.
"Good. I saw you come. What are you doing here?" he asked.
"It's a long story but I want you to meet-" Rose started and she looked at Damon.
"Damon Salvatore, turned 1864 by Katherine Pierce, AKA Katerina Patrova," he said. I was actually quite surprised and so was Damon by the look on his face. "So I take it I was right? What I told you about the tomb under the church is true?" he asked.
"Yes, it was right. Thank you for the tip," Rose answered.
"It's nice to meet you," he said holding out a hand towards Damon who unwillingly took it and shook it. "Maybe," the man said. "And who is this?" he asked gesturing towards me.
"We were hoping you could tell us, she hasn't told us yet," Damon said.
"I recognise you from somewhere … you were made vampire by Elijah, weren't you? 1839, wasn't it? You moved back in with him recently, 1990 I believe," he said. "That's strange because you look pretty human to me. I said nothing.
"Thank you for giving away my history," I muttered.
"She is human," Damon said.
"Okay look, I'm an immortal human," I explained.
Okay, maybe that was a lie. I was an immortal shape-shifting human whose best friend was an original vampire.
"What's going on Rose? Where's Trevor?"
Wrong question. Rose remained silent and looked at him before she explained the whole story. I ordered a hot chocolate.
"And you're sure that Elijah is dead?" Slater asked worriedly.
Nope, I thought to myself.
"Beyond dead," Damon answered.
"Trevor was a good man," Trevor said as he led all of us over to a table. "He helped me with my dissertation on sexual deviance in the Baroque period. I was going for my psych PhD."
"Slater's been in college since '74," Rose explained.
"When I was turned," Slater started.
Oh, here we go. Another long vampire story. I rested my head on my hand and with the other hand I drank the hot chocolate.
"I have eighteen degrees, three masters and four PhDs-" Slater began.
God stop bragging already. Just because some people aren't that smart. Well, I was actually fluent in a lot of different languages. English, French, Spanish, German, Finnish and Romanian. I had also just started to learn Italian.
"The point?" Damon asked obviously getting just as annoyed as me.
"Exactly, I mean, what's the point?" Slater said more to himself than to any of us. "What should I be doing with my eternity? If you have an answer please enlighten me."
"We need your help," Rose said.
"If somebody wanted to get in touch with Klaus," Rose started.
Oh my god, you can't get in touch with Klaus, he gets in touch with you!
"How would you hood 'em up?" Rose continued.
"Craigslist," Slater answered.
"Really?" Damon asked doing his 'raising an eyebrow and I don't believe you face.'
"Seriously," Slater replied. "I respond to a personal AD that gets sent to somebody, who knows somebody, who knows Elijah, who's dead, and that's where my connection ends," Slater explained.
"Here's what I don't get. Elijah moves around during the day which means the original people knew the secret of the daylight ring," Damon said.
I mentally laughed. They knew so little about the originals. I supposed that once I had been like them though. Confused by what Elijah was and by how strange the world was.
"Now why would Klaus want to lift the curse of the sun and moon?" Damon asked.
I knew the answer to that by I wasn't about to give away any secrets. I sighed and looked out of the window. I smiled when I saw Elijah standing across the road. He pressed an index finger to his lips. I nodded once and then returned to the conversation.
"…Werewolves from lifting it." I only just caught the end of Slater's sentence. "If a vampire breaks the sun curse then the werewolves are stuck with the curse of the moon forever, and vice versa," Slater explained.
I could see his logic but if only they knew that the sun and moon curse was a fake. I wondered what they would do when and if they ever found out.
"But werewolves are all extinct," Rose said.
No they weren't, they were just hard to get hold of.
"True, I've never seen one but rumour has it-" Slater started.
"Not such a rumour," Damon interrupted.
"Mystic falls?" Slater asked.
What now I was confused? Was Damon saying that there were werewolves in Mystic Falls? I would love to meet another werewolf; I hadn't met one in decades. Damon smiled and tilted his head.
"God, I've got to visit this place, it sounds awesome," Slater said.
"Awesome doesn't ever begin to describe it," Damon said.
I looked back out to Elijah who was still standing there. He made a gesture for me to brace myself. I frowned but nodded.
"Can we stop the curse from being from being broken at all?"
"Well what do you mean?" Slater asked.
"Well, if we rendered the moonstone useless and stopped the curse from being broken," Damon clarified.
I wasn't even really paying attention to the conversation. They were trying to figure out lies, what was the point? Elijah was probably listening anyway.
"Well, yeah probably," Slater answered. "But why would you wanna do that?"
"Tell me how," Damon instructed.
"You think I'm gonna help you figure out how to do something that will piss off an original?" Slater asked. "And keep me from walking in the sun?"
"Wise choice," I murmured.
"You wanna walk in the sun? I can make that happen, if you help us," Damon bribed.
"Don't do it," I murmured although Damon gave me a look to make me shut up. "Fine but if you die, it's not my fault."
Suddenly the glass shattered I raised my arms to protect my face from the glass. There were yells and shouts of surprise. Rose and Slater screamed out in pain as the sunlight hit them.
Damon immediately took his jacket off and covered Rose before pulling her up and grabbing the both of us before pulling us out the car park. Slater had disappeared off somewhere and I had no idea where. Damon let go of me and held Rose against the car.
"You're fine, you're going to be fine," Damon said to her.
"I know, I just-" Rose began.
"Who was behind that?" Damon asked. He seemed really angry.
"I don't know, where's Slater?" Rose asked.
"Iowa by now. Who the hell knows?" Damon answered.
I closed my eyes and lent against the car park pillars. He's left me. Elijah had left me!
"He's not behind this, he's a good guy. He wouldn't betray me," Rose said in a state of panic and shock.
Of course he wasn't behind it; Elijah and I were behind it.
"Well who did it?" Damon asked. He was practically interrogating her now.
"It's Klaus! Don't you understand?" Rose said through tears of terror.
Damon looked taken aback by Rose's fear. I felt guilty for making her cry with fear but even if I said that it was Elijah, they wouldn't believe me.
"You don't know this man! I'm dead, we're all dead!" she sobbed.
Damon and I got into the car with the crying Rose and drove in silence. I listened to my music for the whole journey home. Rose sobbed silently and Damon said nothing. Once back to the boarding house, I went up to my room and sat there sketching for a few hours.
I suddenly realised just how hungry I was. I crept downstairs and tried to find something to eat. Being immortal meant that I didn't have to eat as much as normal humans but I still had to eat like once a day.
"What are you doing?"
I whipped around nearly jumping out of my skin. Stephan stood casually leaning against the doorframe. I sighed.
"Looking for food," I replied.
"Well you are in a house of immortals. We have alcohol and coffee. That's about it," Stephan pointed out.
"Vampires can eat food," I answered.
"Yeah, but we generally don't," Stephan said.
"Damn," I muttered.
"Hold on until tomorrow, I'll take you to Elena's house," Stephan said.
I nodded before heading upstairs to bed. I slept until six but I woke with horrible stomach pains. I sat in bed until seven when I heard the sounds of life downstairs. Well actually it was more like death considering all vampires are dead.
