The Original Petrova

Chapter 2

Elena's POV

"Elijah," Juliana said, completely ignoring Damon and walking towards Elijah. "Well, you look exactly the same."

"As do you." His stunned expression faded as he spoke. "So my dear Juliana, what brings you here?"

"Well, word around is Klaus broke the curse to released his werewolf side," she explained.

"Of course, and you thought you'd be able to break your curse." he presumed. Her eyebrows raised.

"Not going to ask how you know about the curse, I'm guessing one of the witches you're using told you, but I'm sure they didn't tell you that you're the reason the curse was placed on us." she said. Elijah said nothing.

"You", the girl with the red hair looked at me, "You must be Katherine. You look exactly li-"

"Her name's Elena, May. Katherine is over there" Damon corrected her angrily and looked over at the place Katherine was sitting. The whole room looked at him. I really wish he hadn't interrupted her because I wanted to know what she was going to say. These girls looked nice, but I had a weird feeling about them, I'm wasn't sure if it was positive or negative.

"Damon." everyone attention focused back on Juliana.

"Yes Juliana?" he answered dryly.

"I see you haven't quite gotten over your 'undying' love for Katherine" she and took a glanced at me and then to Katherine. Damon said nothing. "He would have loved Charlotte. Don't you think, Elijah?" she said still looking at Damon.

"None of us truly loved Charlotte. You know that." he assured her.

I turned around to see the girl with the hazel eyes had been staring at Damon. He tried not to make it noticeable, but I knew he was staring too. I looked over at Katherine. She'd been quiet the whole time, I even saw her look at Damon and I a couple of times. Then I looked over at Caroline and Bonnie. Bonnie looked disturbed.

"What's wrong Bonnie?" Caroline asked her in a low voice.

"They shouldn't be here, they're evil. Grams said they're evil. I don't trust them," she whispered back, she almost seemed scared. I guess Juliana heard them because she looked up at them for a minute.

We're not the evil ones Elena I heard a low voice in my head say.

"Okay not to interrupt but Damon hasn't killed you yet, neither has Elijah. So... who are you guys?" Alaric stood up and asked. I'm glad he asked the one question we all wanted the answer to.

"Well the beautiful one talking as you already know is Juliana", Elijah said giving her a look, the same look Damon gives me. "The red head is Malyna, but she goes by May now" he pointed at her and she rolled her eyes. "The blonde is Olive" he looked at her, then I noticed she was staring at Bonnie. "And then there's their youngest sister Annalise, Damon knows her" he finished.

"They're sisters?", Tyler asked staring at them.

"Half sisters", May answered.

"So how do you know Elijah?" Caroline asked.

"It's getting late I think we should go now" Olive suggested and looked at her sister gesturing them to leave.

"Wait" May stopped and started looking around. "Where's Stefan?" she asked. We all looked at each other. There was a brief silence. "Where's Stefan" she repeated.

"Klaus has him. He sold himself to Klaus to save Damon" Katherine told them. She told them what happened to Elijah and what Klaus was planning to do with Stefan. The room was dead silent after she was done.

"We're going now" May announced dolefully and they left.

••••

Damon's POV

"Hey Damon" Elena said walking in my room. It was late at night I was going through channels on the television; I thought she had left hours ago with Alaric.

"Hey what are you doing here I thought you went home?" I asked her.

"I drove back over here. I got lonely I guess." she walked over and sat beside me on the edge of my bed.

"Oh" I didn't know what to say. I thought I would be the last person Elena Gilbert would come to for company. "Well Elijah, Alaric and I are going over to Juliana's to come up with a plan to find Stefan. You can come, I guess." I suggested trying not to sound too needy.

"Speaking of Juliana, what are they?" she asked me. I didn't know what to tell her. I didn't know what they were. Last time I saw them they had just moved into town and I was convinced they were human.

"You'll find out tomorrow," I said with a smirk.

"Oh and what's with you and Annalise? I mean you looked like you were really close to her..."

"We were. Katherine wasn't the first girl I fell in love with Elena"

"Oh, well what happened?"

"Annalise died. At least...that's what Juliana told me. She convinced me she was dead. Then Katherine came along."

"I heard Bonnie tell Caroline that they couldn't be trusted."

"Yes because Bonnie is always right" I said sarcastically.

"Damon, we need to talk" she hesitated, "about what happened last night".

"What's there to say Elena?"

"First I want to know how Katherine got in the house last night."

"Technically you died"

"Exactly. And when Caroline died, she remembered everything you compelled her to forget..."

"I-"

"You compelled me to forget you loved me. Why?"

"Bec-"

"How did you know I didn't feel the same Damon?"

•••••

"We're here", I announced when we pulled up. Elena, Alaric and I walked to the front door of the house and before we rang the doorbell, Juliana opened it and invited us in.

"You have a really nice house," Elena complimented.

"Thank you, a friend gave it to us." Juliana smiled and walked towards the living room. "Here's Olive, May and Annalise are still asleep"

"Hey Damon, Elena, and...", she looked at Alaric.

"Alaric," he looked at her and gave her a flirty smile. I wanted to say 'She's too young Ric' but she the same age in 1864 there was no telling how old she was now, so I let him have his fun.

"Alaric" she continued and looked at the grandfather clock across from her, "Well...you guys came early."

"Well I couldn't wait to see you of course" I joked. She smiled. Olive never had a thing for me but who could resist my charm?

"Well make yourself at home. We'll wait for Elijah and Katherine then we'll figure out how to get Stefan back" she said as her smile faded and she stood up. "I'll be back," she told us and walked upstairs.

"So Damon... you and Elena are dating?" Juliana asked.

"Oh no we're just friends. I'm- I'm with Stefan" Elena said immediately. Juliana looked at me and the room became silent.

"So I'm guessing you want to know what we are" she assumed.

"That'd be nice. I'm guessing there's a story involved which could also explain why you told me Annalise was dead" I answered in a calm tone although she and I both knew I was furious inside.

"Well, we're Wizards." she told us.

"But aren't wizards male witches?" Elena asked.

"Obviously you haven't seen Harry Potter" I joked.

"Well Elena male witches like to go by the term 'Warlock'. Many people compare men and women to wizards and witches because men are supposedly more superior than woman. As wizards are more powerful than witches." she explained.

"That's why Bonnie was so scared last night" Elena whispered to me.

"So how do you know Elijah and what curse do you need to break?" Alaric asked.

"Well... that's a long story, but I guess we have enough time. I'm guessing you all know Elena and Katherine are Petrova Doppelgangers. But I don't think you guys know who the original one was." she got up and opened a cabinet and took out a large frame. She came back to the couch and turned the frame around to us revealing the painting. "Here's our Petrova Family painting in 1421. This is our mother, Arabella Petrova, and this is our 5th sister, Charlotte Petrova. You know how she looks already." she looked up at Elena.

We all stared at the picture astounded. Elena and Katherine resembled Charlotte.

"She's beautiful", Elena said referring to Arabella.

"Charlotte has her eyes," Juliana explain. She and Elena smiled at each other. It was the first time I'd seen Elena smile in a while and I admit I was happy to see it.

"When every wizard is born they get a gift." she started to explain, "Most are simple, depends on how powerful your parents are. Arabella got a special gift, the gift of life. There's only one a lifetime. When one dies another is born. She was one of the most powerful wizards since birth. News got out that she had the gift of life so there were wizards lining up to marry her in hope they would have a very powerful child. They wer-"

"They were using her" a voice behind me said. It was May. She sat down next to us.

"Yes they were" she continued, "There were 4 who were very powerful and wouldn't give up until she had born them a child. So out of fear she gave each of them a chance and had a child by each. And 3 of us got the gift of an element; me the gift of air, Olive the gift of the sea, Charlotte the gift of love, and May the gift of the earth. A year after May was born Arabella married and had Annalise, with the gift of mind which was the most powerful. Charlotte hated Annalise since she was born. She tried to kill her... twice."

"She deserves the award for 'Worlds Best Sister' don't you think?" May said sarcastically.

Juliana gave May a "stop talking" look and continued, "When we were older our mother went to England to tend to her ill mother. That's when we met Elijah's family. He had many brothers but we only took interest in him and Klaus. Olive and Annalise fell in love with Klaus, but May and I were more interested in Elijah. Charlotte had the hearts of their other brothers. A year later Arabella told them to choose because she refused to see her daughter fight over men. That's when Elijah chose me and Klaus chose Annalise. Olive and May weren't upset, they understood and moved. A year later the Bennett witches arrived in town and Elijah's father wanted his sons to find a bride. The 2 Bennett sisters Isabelle and Margaret tried to take Klaus and Elijah by any means necessary. That's when Arabella told us to stay away from them. We all listened but Charlotte. She manipulated them to fall in love with her. My sisters never liked Charlotte, but she's our sister so I couldn't give up on her. I begged her to back off but it was too late. The witches saw how much they loved her and planned to kill Charlotte. She even went as far as manipulating their brother Thomas to love her. When Elijah and Klaus found out they wanted to hurt Charlotte; they paid men to have all of them killed. They were powerful witches and the men only succeeded in killing 2 of the brothers. They blamed us for it. When Arabella found out she hid Charlotte, even from us. Then I never saw her again." she tried to hide a tear coming down her eye.

May saw that she couldn't continue so she continued for her, "Finally the witches found out it wasn't our fault and they put a curse on Elijah's family. I- I remember Isabelle said that since they invaded their home at night and killed their brother, they were cursed to roam the nights and kill for life. Magaret found out about Klaus's werewolf bloodline and put another curse binding it. She said since she couldn't kill Charlotte, he would have to kill someone who looks like her to break his curse. They didn't give up looking for Charlotte. One day I woke up on my own, I knew something was wrong, Arabella usually woke me up every morning. But Arabella wasn't there the witches took her. She wasn't dead, but she wasn't alive either. Magaret Bennett knew 5 Wizards, children of life made werewolves with the help of one witch. So she said if Klaus ever broke his curse, the only way we'd get Arabella back is by taking away Klaus's werewolf side, the same way werewolves were made."

"But there's only 4 of you" Alaric pointed out.

May paused and gave him a deadly stare, "Don't ever doubt a Petrova".


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