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Thanks for sticking around to chapter 2. Things start to pick up here. I don't know how many chapters there will be, it depends on how in-depth I go into the training. Thanks so much for reading, and please review!

Chapter 2

Katherine was in the living room, looking at the books on the shelves when Damon and Elena made their way back from Damon's room.

"Back already? I was hoping you'd take longer, it's not like time is important or anything," Katherine quipped. "Now that you got your daily quickie out of the way, let's try to actually focus."

Elena could feel the heat rising to her face from mortification.

"We didn't…I mean…There was no…"

"Where's Stefan?" Damon interjected, trying to keep the conversation going.

"Don't be so modest, Elena," Katherine smirked as she ignored Damon, reveling in her doppelgänger's embarrassment. "I move fast, you move fast, it's nothing to be ashamed about. You're a doppelganger after all; exactly like me in every way."

Elena's heart sank at her words, her eyes losing some of their sparkle as Katherine spoke. She knew it wasn't true. She wasn't anything like Katherine, but she couldn't help but wonder if she was just trying to fool herself.

Damon felt the shift in Elena more than he saw it. He smirked at Katherine.

"Katherine, Katherine, Katherine. Don't flatter yourself. Everyone in this room knows she is nothing like you. Besides, we actually like her, where on the other hand, you're just some bitch who ripped out our hearts and turned us into vampires."

"Ah…right. Nothing like me," Katherine said, striding across the room to the two lovers, her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed. She stopped in front of Elena and tilted her head to the side. "And…Damon's your second Salvatore, am I right?"

Before the young vampire could speak, there was a blur and Damon had Katherine pinned to the wall by her neck.

"What's the matter Damon? Tired of being second choice?" Katherine asked before throwing him onto the floor, Elena rushing to kneel beside him. "You better watch your temper, Damon," Katherine warned from her place above the two younger vampires. "And how you speak to me. After all, you have to entrust your precious Elena to me for this plan to work."

"Like hell I am," the raven-haired vampire spat. He felt a squeeze on his arm and looked over at a shaken-up Elena. Her brown eyes bore into his, reminding him of their earlier conversation. He shook his head at her. "I'm not, Elena. I'm not letting you anywhere near her while I'm not around."

"It's ok. She needs me for this. She won't hurt me," Elena tried to reason.

"Damon's right," a deep voice came from the entryway. All three turned to see Stefan walking in, an ice chest in his arms, no doubt filled with blood bags.

Katherine let out a frustrated sigh.

"Fine. Since no one seems okay with trusting me, let's gather 'round the living room and waste more time by talking about it."

The four vampires were seated in the living room for nearly an hour and a half before they finally came to an agreement.

"Alright," Stefan began for the third time, hoping it was an agreement everyone could be satisfied with. "Katherine and Elena will go to the woods to train and strategize for five hours a day, every day. Damon or I will come to check on you two periodically," he continued. Damon was leaning back on the couch, his arms crossed. He didn't agree in the slightest with Stefan's decision to leave Elena alone with Katherine, but he had been outnumbered. "Damon and I will run through a couple of back up scenarios here, in case something goes wrong with your plan," Stefan recounted looking between the two doppelgängers. "And the most important part: we'll try and keep this a secret from Klaus as long as we can."

"Okay," Elena agreed, grabbing Damon's hand, trying to reassure him that this was going to work. "When do we start?"

"Now," Katherine instructed, grabbing her hand and pulling her away from Damon and out the door to the surrounding woods.

Damon stood in indignation, preparing to run off after the girls, before his brother blocked his path.

"Let her go, Damon," Stefan told him, his body tense, prepared to fight him if he insisted on chasing the doppelgängers.

"You really think she's going to be ok with Katherine?" Damon asked his brother with disdain.

"Yes. Katherine wants nothing more than to kill Klaus, and if she doesn't have Elena, she won't be able to. She's safe."

"How do we know she won't go running to Klaus?"

"We don't. But we're checking up on them, so at the earliest sign of trouble, we can take Elena and run," he looked at his brother, who still didn't seem completely convinced. He sighed. "I love her too, Damon. Between the two of us, nothing will happen to her. I promise."

Damon softened as his brother's confession.

"Yeah, well. If something does happen to her, you're dead," the elder Salvatore said in a slightly humorous tone, though both of them knew there was some truth to the words.

"This looks like a good place," the original doppelgänger proclaimed as she and Elena emerged into a clearing. She turned to face her younger companion. "This is where we'll lure Klaus. We'll spend the next couple of weeks memorize this place and ever scenario that might occur. We'll have a home field advantage."

"Why couldn't Damon and Stefan come?" Elena blurted. It had been bothering her since the negotiations, but she didn't want to bring it up in front of Damon.

Katherine's look of determination quickly fell, only to be replaced with a look of contempt.

"For starters, I don't need Damon stepping in to protect his precious little Elena every time I throw you into a tree, which, for your information, will probably be a lot," she began, walking towards the young vampire. "Secondly, we'll be doing the same moves we'll be doing when we actually have Klaus in front of us. For the plan to work, we're going to have to look exactly alike. Same clothes, hair, everything. The day of the fight, if something goes wrong, I don't need the Salvatores ruining it. If they know who's supposed to do what, then they know the difference between us, and if they know the difference between us, and you get hurt, everything goes to shit, because you better believe one of them will come to your rescue. And lastly, I need your full, undivided attention for this to work. That's why Damon and Stefan couldn't come."

"Understandable," Elena managed nervously, nodding. Katherine's lips curved upwards into a malicious smile.

"This is the fun part. I can impersonate you down to a T, sweetie. Now it's your turn. Pick up my habits and pick them up fast, because every time you're weak, I get to do this," she said, before picking up her look-alike and throwing her into a tree.

There you go! Chapter 2! I hope y'all are enjoying it! Please PLEASE review- it really is my motivation. Even if it's just to say "Great job" or "Keep it up". Really, I appreciate it so much.
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