A/N: Hey there!
Disclaimer: This story is based on the series of the same name and the characters belong to the creators of 'The Vampire Diaries'. I don't own either of the series. No copyright infringement intended.
I made some changes in the earlier chapters. Like Kath's mom and dad are Jenna and John now, not Grayson and Miranda. I just find them more accurate. I know this might be confusing. Sorry.
Enjoy!
Refresher: After her foster-brother, Travis, frames her for stealing from her foster-mother, Elena goes on the run and decides to meet up with Katherine. Already having leads on their birth parents, Katherine wants to go to Los Angeles and find more information about them, convincing Elena to take her place for the next few days. In Katherine's place, Elena manages to slightly confuse the Gilbert (although they don't suspect a thing). And Katherine's friends also notice she's different when she meets up with them in Care's house at a welcome home party (Party only consist of Laurel, Bon, Care and Luke). Nisha Randall crashes the party and challenges Katherine to a tennis match which she takes up. Nisha also invites the girls to a party she is having in 2 days time.
The next morning is the first day of school. And Elena is still sleeping. Laurel, 'her sister', come's into the room and saw that she is still sleeping. A plan starts to formulate in her mind. She pick up a spare pillow that is lying on the bed. She moves her hand high in the air and then throws it in Elena's face as hard as she could, shouting"First day of school. And you're still asleep." Elena wakes up with a grasp,"Figured you'd already be dressed. The whole school's going to be dying to see what what Katherine Mercer is wearing." She said and tucked a stray of hair back behind her ear, elegantly,"Little curious, myself. Better hurry." She said leaving Kath's room.
Elena, still sleepy, manages to get out of the bed. With eyes half close she walks into the bathroom. there she throws some cold water at her face, to make sleep go away. Then she takes a quick shower, warps a towel around her pretty little body and goes to Kath's walk in closet.
Her eyes widen when she see rows and rows of clothes there,"You said this would be fun, Katherine. It finally is." She mumbled to herself with a huge smile. Elena had the best time ever that morning so far trying to pick something to wear from Kath's massive walk in closet. After she's done choosing the outfit for that day she walks to the kitchen and ask Jenna to give her some pancakes she was making. Jenna gives Elena a wierd look, but gives her the pancakes.
"These are amazing." Elena said as she took her first bite, sitting on the bar-stool.
All the three Gilbert's are staring at Elena, like she's some ghost."Last time I made you pancakes, you refused to touch them." Finally Jenna said.
"Pancakes- strictly verboten on the Katherine lean, mean, fighting machine diet." Laurel said in her little sarcastic way.
"Oh. Well, I guess pancakes are my new tofu." They all finish breakfast. john and Jenna share a look that said,'we are happy to have her back to normal'.
"I'll be in the car." Laurel said and left with her backpack. Elena was also gonna leave, but a picture of Kath and Jenna catches her eye. Kath might be around one or two in that photo. She was sitting in Jenna's lap and Jenna's pointing at the camera, telling Kath to look there. Elena look at the photo for a moment with sad eyes. Jenna notices this and stop her work, of cleaning the kitchen, and starts walking toward Elena.
"The miracle was getting you to sit still long enough for that photo." Jenna said walking towards her.
"I was a fussy baby." Elena said, playing her role of Katherine.
"Very defiant." Jenna answers.
"Did you guys want one kid or two?" Jenna gives her a surprised look at this, Elena spoke a bit to high.
"I, uh I don't..." Jenna stuttered.
"I just meant, was I supposed to be an only child?" Elena asks, this time a bit politely.
"Yes. We adopted you, and then Laurel was a surprise. It was supposed to be impossible." Jenna informs Elena.
"Just like that, you had the complete family." The words were out of Elena's mouth before she could stop herself.
"Look I mean-" Elena started to say but was cut off when John signaled her to just leave her alone for some time.
"Think about it- you could be living just about anywhere." Laurel said when they have reached the 'Mystic Falls High School'.
"Yeah, I think I did okay, considering the alternative." At this Laurel gave Elena a look that said,'What? How could you know who would have adopted you?',"I mean, if no one adopted me."
"Really? Are there still orphanages?" Laurel asked, almost surprised.
"I think some. I think it's mostly foster families and I heard that those can get pretty awful." Elena answers.
"Ah, yes, Mystic Fall's own Damon Salvatore." Laurel said as the guy, that Elena had seem on the motorcycle yesterday got out of the police car,"Most likely guy in high school to get into serious trouble, and most unlikely guy to have a brother who's a cop, Stefan." When Damon shuts the door, he stares at Elena for a moment, then goes away in the other direction.
"All right, later, sis." Laurel said, heading towards her friends,"If I don't see you, good luck against Nisha." She wished.
"Thanks." Elena said to her retreating back. Elena also started to make her way towards her locker. Last night Elena had tried to remember every-word Kath has left for her. That thing had Kath's whole like in it. Just like Kath has said.
Boys they really like me
Girls they wanna fight me
Lookin' for some action
Give it up and live it up and turn the freakin' music up
"Hey, Katherine." Someone said.
"Hi." Elena replied with a broad smile.
"Hey, Katherine." Someone else said,"Love the shoes." Another girl said,"Yeah." the girls with that one said.
"Thanks." Elena replied, overwhelmed by the attention.
"Hey, girl." Caroline said,"Cute." She complimented looking at her appearance.
"Hey." Bonnie said from behind Caroline.
"Hey." I also said in reply. Caroline linked her arm with mine and we all head towards out lockers.
"So, out of the blue, my mom has, like, this "lurid" moment and starts going on about you." Caroline said.
"I think you mean 'lucid.'" Bonnie corrected.
"Your mom was talking about me?" Elena asked, interested about why was Liz talking about her.
"It was weird. I still can't get over the fact they all went to high school together- our parents." Caroline said.
"Too bad they don't still get along." Bonnie commented.
"Not like us. Friends for life, right, Katherine?" Caroline asked.
"For life." Elena said with a huge smile.
At Lunch time
"Babe." Luke said when Elena was heading in some direction, other that their regular direction.
"Hmm?" Elena asked confused, with a food try in her hand.
"What, are we just going to give up our table?" Luke asked.
"No. No." Elena said, walking over to the table Luke pointed.
"Am I nuts or are people staring at us?" Elena asked as she felt most students staring at them.
"Yeah, I guess." Luke said looking around,"Everyone's wondering if we're still a couple."
"How do you know that?"
"Just stuff I heard."
"Oh."
"So are we still a couple? 'Cause, I don't know, sometimes I kind of think that you take us for granted."
"Luke I really appreciate you and I appreciate this and I would be crazy to take it for granted." Elena said, truthfully.
"You're looking at me the way you used to." Luke tells her.
"I-" Elena starts.
"Come on." Luke said offering her his hand,"Follow me." Luke leads Elena to the theater room.
"Now, this, I didn't want anyone to see." Luke told Elena, his hand going around Elena's neck, pulling her closer. He kissed her. Firstly Elena was reluctant to kiss him back, but the she remembered that, Luke was supposed to be 'her' boyfriend.
"With everything that's been going on, I just I haven't been able to say what I wanted to say for two days. I'm glad you're back, Katherine." Luke said, sweetly.
"Thanks." Elena said and blushes a little. She's starting to fall for him a little.
"It's really weird. I- I feel like there is something you're not telling me." Luke said.
Elena was horrified at first, that he figured, but then she deflects. "Actually, there's something that you can tell me." At this Luke tenses a little."How the hell am I going to survive against Nisha today?" Luke chuckles,"Oh, well, uh you've got a great backhand, so use it, and, hey, don't forget, you're better than you think you are."
At Mystic Falls High Tennis court.
DJ knows what to play
Needle droppin' the sounds
Pump the beat through my veins
Ain't no stoppin me now
Takin over the room
When I'm out on the floor
Get your game face on
And open the door
There is whistling, cheering, and applause. Elena and Nisha are having their 'epic' match. Nisha starts the match by serving first. The match goes on for just 2 minutes and Elena had defeated Nisha. Nisha is clearly upset and angry about this. There is a large sound of cheering and applause,"Yes." Elena said jumping, really happy. Finally the tennis practice didn't go to waste.
Damon Salvatore is also one of the students sitting on the bleachers. He looks at Elena is a weird expression. Elena notices it but doesn't say a thing, too tired. When Elena was making her way toward the car she sees him again, leaning against a pillar. Looking right at her. She first thought to ignore him then change her mind."Okay, are you, like, Humpty Dumpty or something? Because every time I see you, you're on a wall." Elena asks him, he look really surprised,"And you know what? If Luke knew that you were stalking me, he'd be really pissed."
"Stalking you?" Damon asked, sarcastically.
"What else would you call it?" Elena demands.
"I guess just about anything else." Damon scoffs, walking away.
"Hey, that was you last night outside my window, wasn't it?"
"Of course it was." Damon answers, as if it was the most normal thing.
"Hey, where's your gym bag?" Laurel ask Elena when she walks to the car.
"Huh? Probably left it on the courts." Elena signed.
"That was like every day last year." Laurel said. When she goes back, she sees Nisha and Luke kissing but they don't see her. They are both to lost in their own world of bliss.
"That's horrible- actually kissing." Jenna said when Elena has finished telling her what she saw.
"And I know that you like Luke, and I do too. It's just do I confront him?" Elena asked.
"Well, yeah. I mean, you can't let someone do that to you, and the alternative would be to pretend you didn't see anything." Jenna answers.
"It's Right. And leaving something out isn't a lie." Elena said hinting to Kath's adoption.
"Some people say that." Jenna shrugged.
"I think a lie's a lie, but if the reasons are reasonable, then maybe you can forgive the lie." Elena try to get Jenna to open up.
"Your father and I love you so much, Katherine. We chose you. We would do anything for you. And I think I think that's all that matters." Jenna tell Elena.
"It is. And I know I haven't really appreciated all that you guys have done. You and Dad. But I just need you to know that no matter what happens, I love you.
I love you both, and I'm sorry for the way that I've been. Or the way that I think I was this summer."
"I'm so sorry, too."
"What's the point? 10 p.m is all over." Elena said still siting in her casual wears. Laurel was in Kath's room siting in front of her mirror. Doing her make up. Whereas Elena was sitting on Kath's bed.
"What happens at 10:00 p.m. Is this a Cinderella thing?" Laurel asked sarcastically. Elena had forgotten Laurel was also there.
"I should just tell you." Elena said.
"Tell me what?" Laurel asks but before Elena said a thing there are footsteps approaching. Caroline and Bonnie enter.
"You're not dressed." Caroline asked,"Don't say you're not going. All of Mystic High knows you kicked Nisha's ass, and they want to see the fireworks."
"Sounds like she's got someplace else to be." Laurel answers for Elena.
"What is wrong with you guys? So what if it's Nisha-Lucretia, it's still a party. With seniors, glorious seniors."
"You guys are amazing, you know that." Elena said.
"Right? You're really scaring me, Katherine. Now, get dressed so we can go." Bonnie said.
"Why don't you go pick something out of my closet? You know it better than I do." Elena tells Bonnie. Finally giving in to Caroline's puppy dog face.
When Elena and the gang enter the house, they hear people talking, laughing. And Again And Again - 5 Alarm Music was busting through the speakers.
I've got a fashion that you want a piece of (oh yeah)
So full of passion and so full of love
This is the high life, this is the fame
I'll make you want a piece of me again and again
I've got a style that makes you look at me twice
I could be bad but I could also be nice
"Thought we were coming together to this." Luke said coming up beside Elena. Everyone had already left in different direction, so they were alone.
"Came with my friends." Elena shrugged.
" want to explain this?"
"What? This. The Cold Shoulder."
"Sorry, Luke. Guess I'm just having a little trouble trusting you right now." Elena snapped and left.
"Hey, hey, babe, babe. Just come here."
Stop.
I saw you with Nisha. Okay? At the tennis courts? So how long has that been going on? All summer? Or just since I've been back? Katherine I'm going to vote "all summer."
"Katherine, you were avoiding me. You were, you were distracted." Luke tried to explain, stuttering a little.
"So what was that today? Your lips just accidentally ran into Nisha's?" Elena asked, hurt and angry beyond anything.
"Baby, she kissed me. And I-I told her it was over, and it was a summer thing, and that you and I had talked. Remember? The auditorium?" He tried to calm Elena down. He was going to say something else, but Nisha beat him to that. When she saw Elena and Luke fighting she thought, What better chance to mess with Katherine than this? "He doesn't give a crap about you. You won nothing today. You got lucky. You have never been in my league, and you never will be." Nisha said.
Elena shouted on top of her voice. Everyone in the party."Oh, you know what, Nisha? I have known people like you my entire life. In fact, I have actually wanted to be like you at one point, but all you do is put people down, and somehow you think that makes you better than anybody else." When Elena was shouting at Nisha, she forgot that she has to play the role of Katherine. All she said was what she felt. Not what Katherine would have said. But she didn't care at that moment. She had started to feel something for Luke, and then she found this out. Then also, she wasn't sad for herself, Luke was never hers to begin with. She was sad for Katherine. Luke was her boyfriend. How could he do that to Kath? After her bust out Elena was walking back to her car to meet up with Kath at the Cabin.
"At least it doesn't make me a poser." Came Nisha's voice from behind her.
"What?" Elena's inside were melting but she kept her brave face on. How could Nisha know about their switch? She couldn't.
"Truth is you were abandoned, Katherine. Even your real mother didn't want you." At this many kids exclaimed. Before Elena could think, her hand flew out and hit Nisha hard across her cheek. The slap was so hard that all five of Elena's figures left an impression on her cheek. Everyone around then gasped and some were cheering.
"Get her out of here!" Nisha shouted when she came out of shock. Before Nisha could finish her sentence Elena was already heading out.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Bonnie said, following Elena."That was beautiful. Where you going? I'll come with." Bonnie offered.
"I'm good. I'm just going to go home. Good night. Bonnie, see you later." Elena lied.
"Sure." Bonnie said, and headed inside, to mess with Nisha some more.
Elena gets into Katherine's car and so does the strange guy Damon."I'm really tired of this game." Damon said.
"No! Get out of my car. Get out. I didn't even know you were here." Elena shouted.
"Yeah, you didn't look,'Humpty was on the wall'." Damon said. Then suddenly His Lips were on Elena's. Elena froze. She didn't react, just stayed frozen.
"I knew it. You're not Katherine." Damon said, after breaking the kiss.
They were both standing outside Kath's BMW now. Elena was placing in front of the car. "I'm right, aren't I? You're not Katherine. You're someone else."
"You're a pain in my ass." Elena said, totally loosing her Katherine character.
"See, Katherine would never say that." Damon pointed.
"Shut up." Elena snapped.
"Or that." Damon said.
"Go away."
"Or that!"
"I am Katherine. K-A-T-H." Elena said but then realised how stupid it was to tell someone your name's spelling to prove you are that person. She just heave a sigh and said,"Just forget it. Forget it."
"All right. If you're Katherine, fine. Prove it. Prove you're Katherine. Answer me one question. Who's your boyfriend?" Damon challenged.
"Luke Coburn is my boyfriend. Or at least was."
"Or never was. I'm Katherine's boyfriend. Katherine and I have been seeing each other for nearly a year. We texted the entire time she was in Paris and Skyped and talked. You know, I had a feeling about you first time I saw you. Then on the court with Nisha, then you accuse me of being a stalker, and that kiss just now- you might look like her you don't kiss like her."
"You done?" Elena said annoyed.
"Soon as you tell me where the real Katherine is." Damon insisted.
"You're looking at her, and now you're looking at her walking away." Elena said sitting h=in her car and driving towards the Cabin.
"Katherine? Katherine." Elena asked when Elena parked the car outside her. When she heard no voice she opened the door and went onside. The door opened with a creaking sound, like in horror movies. Elena entered the cabin and one again called for Kath,"Katherine?"
When she was wandering there she saw a necklace lying oh one of the sofa. It was shining bright under the moon light. Elena picked it up ad it looked like the grandma's necklace Katherine has explained in her laptop. Elena heard an car engine cut off,"Katherine." She called again thinking Katherine has finally reached. But when she reached there she saw someone else. Someone she didn't expected. Damon. Damon Salvatore was standing there. Holding a torch in his hand.
"So you ready to tell me who you are, where you've come from, and what the hell you've done with Katherine?" Damon asked, but Elena kept her quire."All right, I can go to Katherine's parents if that's what you want, or my brother, the cop." Damon threatened.
"All right I'm not Katherine. I am her twin sister Elena. My name is Elena Pertova." Elena said and she felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulder,"Oh, God, you have no idea how many times I have wanted to say that in the last two days. We switched places when I got here."
"Man, two whole days. You fooled everyone." Damon said and laughed.
"Except you." Elena replied.
"All it took was a kiss."
"So you're running from the law in Nevada. That explains why you're here, but the switch?" Damon questioned after Elena had told him everything.
"Katherine didn't want me to tell anybody, especially her family." Elena explained.
"This has to do with her search for her real parents, doesn't it?" Damon asked.
"She told you?" Elena was surprised at the revelation.
"I know she's been looking into it, and I'm guessing, except for you, I am the only other person who knows." After this they fell in a comfortable silence.
"So, what's it like being Katherine?" Damon asked.
"Well, let's see. I broke up with her fake boyfriend, I accused her real boyfriend of being a stalker." Damon smiled a little,"With her parents, I tried to help, except that backfired, and well, at least with her sister, I think I managed to actually fix something. She said her whole life is on her computer, and I went through that thing over and over again." Elena told him.
"Guess she had a lot of secrets." Damon put forth his opinion.
"She said that she'd be here at 10:00. I don't know why she wouldn't call if she got delayed or e-mail or text or- I have her phone," Elena said looking around for Kath's phone,"I had it." She said when she couldn't find it.
"Katherine was always losing it, too." Damon told him. Elena was surprised to find out that she and her sister have a lot in common even though they have never been together.
"This switch was really important to her." Elena told Damon."That's why I've done everything that I can to make it work."
"Then you have to keep it up. We both do." Damon supplied.
"So I go on being Katherine?" Elena asked.
"Until she comes back."
"I got home first, and the alarm was going off." Laurel was informing the police officer.
"Alarm company said it went off at exactly 10:15." John gave the piece of information he had just received.
"What's going on?" Elena asked confused. Everyone was collected in Kath's room. There was police and the glass of her window was broken.
"Oh, thank God. Where were you?" Jenna took Elena in to a hug.
"I went for a walk and I left my phone in my car." Elena told the partial truth.
"Someone broke into the house, into your room. We think maybe Laurel scared them away. We need to take a look around, see if anything's missing." Stefan, Damon's older brother and a cop told Elena.
"The laptop's gone." Elena look around and notice the only thing that was gone was Kath's laptop.
"Is that it?" Stefan asked a bit rudely.
"Looks like it." Elena told him.
"Also, according to Bonnie Mikaelson, you left the party early. Where were you, Katherine?" Stefan asked. Fear filled Elena. What should I tell them? I can't tell then where I really was. It would freak Kath's family out.
"I don't care where you were. As long as you're safe, it's all that matters to me. God, what would I ever do without my Katherine?" Jenna said saving Elena from answering. Stefan was not happy by Jenna's interference but let it go.
In L.A.
Kath sitting in a car at a fairground in LA and someone opens the passenger door and gets in just as Kath gasps.
A/N: So how was it? Did you liked it? I hope you do. Share your thoughts.
Did you expected Luke to do what he did? I totally didn't.
What happened? Who's the person that came to sit in Kath's car? Is she gonna be fine? Comment! You know I live for them.
So in this story Stefan will be playing the role of the older brother where as Damon the younger. They are having an role reversal, but don't think they will also have an character reversal. Stefan is still the brother who broods and Damon is still the 'fun brother.'
This chapter's question: Who could the person be?
Hint: He's not some one bad and has been mentioned in the story once or twice.
Whoever guesses who the person is will get a sneak peek. ;)
P.S.: You know, we have just completed the first episode of the series. This is gonna be a very very long ride.
