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Chapter Three

Twenty minutes later the four of them were piled into a black SUV heading out of state. Klaus was driving with Ariana in the passenger seat, Stefan and Elijah sat in the back.

"Alright, I know you two have more questions, but Stefan needs to know things first." Ari said, turning so she was sitting sideways in her seat, able to see all three of them. "Firstly, I am indeed Elena's twin. I was born three minutes before her. The reason she wouldn't have mentioned me is because we had a falling out when we were fifteen and I was dating Tyler. She didn't like it and I wouldn't break it off. I left two weeks later with John because I had started to change. I got angry around the full moon which made things explode. Isobel had told him of the prophecy," here Stefan cut her off.

"What prophecy?" He asked nervously, only knowing of one, and it involved Klaus, another hybrid and a second male.

"A witch born of the Petrova line, identical in all but the eyes. Born first only to always come second. Changes will come by her fifteenth year. She will train in the ways of magic as her body changes to accept her destiny. A born hybrid of wolf, vampire and witch, awaits for her mates transformation. From vampire to original hybrid, he will accept her and together they will find their third. A vampire from her town of birth, drawn to her sister. As the full moon rises, two shall be united with the help of the brother...' Yeah, it's a long ass prophecy, but that's most of it. It was split into three, told by three different witches at three different points in time."

Stefan nodded, as it was the prophecy he thought, though he had only heard about it in general and not word for word.

"Anyway, John and Isobel told me everything they knew about vampires, witches and werewolves before bringing me to Celeste, a witch that Isobel had met. I've spent the past two and a half years with her, learning everything I could. She told me the prophecy. About three months ago I came back to Mystic Falls, knowing Klaus would come for Elena and what had to be done to insure she lived but at the same time that Klaus could still make his hybrids."

Klaus looked at her sharply, "the doppelgänger is alive?" He asked incredulously.

"Yes. There was a trick to the spell your mother had placed on you. While breaking the curse allows you to be a hybrid, killing the doppelgänger would not allow you to create any more."

"Why?" Elijah asked, intrigued.

"The hybrids need to feed off her blood to complete the transition," she paused, "that's why I came so early. Whenever Elena was at home I'd slip sleeping pills into her water before bed and she'd be out like a light while I drew as much blood into a blood bag as was healthy. I did it twice a week for the last three months, so I've got twenty bags of blood in a cooler in my bag."

Klaus laughed, picking up her hand and placing a kiss against her knuckles, "brilliant love. How did you know though?"

"The witch spirits. They gave me every bit of info I would need in order to get to you. When we convince our other mate to join us we'll be perfectly balanced, and nature itself will be on the right course once again." Ariana said softly.

"Do you know who your other mate is?" Stefan asked curiously. He hoped the little signs he had seen weren't being interpreted wrong.

"We do, but he is currently involved with someone else." Ari sighed sadly.

"That's too bad. Maybe he'll come around once he finds out it's the two of you he is meant to be with and not his boy or girl friend." He suggested hopefully.

Klaus and Ari looked at each other and smiled, this was starting to work better than they thought it would.

"We hope so." Klaus agreed.

A shrill ring interrupted the quiet moment. Stefan sighed, taking out his phone, "it's Katherine."

"Here, let me," Ari said, taking the phone from his hand.

"Hello Katerina. To what do we owe the pleasure."

"Ariana." Katherine greeted civilly "I sent a picture to Stefan. I thought he deserved to know what your whore of a sister was up to while he was out trying to save his brothers life."

Ari pulled the phone from her ear, opening the text messages and accepting the picture. Frowning she opened it to find a picture of Damon and Elena kissing. She knew it was her sister and not Katherine because of the necklace and the bracelet she was wearing.

"Thank you Katherine. I'll let him know." Ari hung up, then, with the picture open, she handed Stefan his phone, "I'm sorry."

Stefan looked at his phone and frowned, knowing too that it was his girlfriend and not Katherine. Just then his phone rang, Elena's name flashing across the screen.

"I can't deal with her."

Klaus looked at Ari and she nodded taking Stefan's phone back as it stopped ringing. "We'll have Klaus answer it next time and tell her something, anything, to keep her from calling again." She paused, thinking , "use his old ripper persona babe. Make Elena and everyone back there think you've made him go off on a killing spree for you. That should keep them occupied."

Stefan protested, "I can't do that! I can't be that person again."

"Shh," Ari whispered, pressing a finger against his lips, "you won't. We'll copy it, make it look like you did it. I know you're on the bunny diet and have been working up a tolerance for human blood. I'll help you with it while you're with us."

Stefan nodded, blushing slightly, "thank you."

"How much are you able to handle so far?" She asked curiously.

"Half a blood bag." He answered.

Nodding, she turned back to face the front, "ok, I know you all have questions for me, so go ahead and ask. We have another six hour drive before we stop for the night."

"Alright, I noticed tattoos on your collarbone, hips and behind your ears. What are they?" Stefan asked curiously.

"Stars." She told them softly, "each star represents five people-vampire, werewolf, witch or human-that I've killed. Weather in self defence, in defence of others or just as a snack. I have two on my left hip, three behind each ear and one at each side of where my collarbone meets. That's ten. I have cherries on my right hip, but much lower than the stars. I also have love on my left wrist and hope on my right."

"Any piercings?" Klaus asked with a grin.

"Mm-hmm," she nodded, smirking. "Tongue, ears, eyebrow, belly button and one that you can discover for yourself later."

Klaus' eyes widened at the implication.

"Wouldn't that hurt?" Stefan asked.

"Slightly. But it was very much worth it." She grinned, looking from Stefan to Klaus, "it's quite stimulating actually. I got it done on my sixteenth birthday. My boyfriend at the time seemed to enjoy it more than I did."

"Not a virgin then?" Elijah grinned, enjoying the carefree talk. It was easier amongst those who were or would be family.

Ariana actually outright laughed at that, "sweetheart, I lost my virginity to Matt Donavon when we were thirteen. Not that my sister knows that of course." She grinned slightly, "they started dating two weeks later."

Stefan gaped, "Matt? The guy who every girl describes as a sweet romantic? The one who acts like he'd have to be married before sex?"

She nodded, chuckling, "it was halfway through the school year, so I was closer to fourteen than thirteen. We were at one of Tyler's parties and ended up making out in the woods, we all ended up staying the night and he snuck into the guest room I was staying in that night and it just happened." She shrugged, "Tyler's mom knew. I used to talk to Carol about everything. Miranda-mine and Elena's adoptive mother-cared more about Elena than me. Carol noticed when I started spending more time over there or at Caroline's than I did at home. Her and Liz confronted me about it and ended up becoming more like mothers to me than the woman I thought was my mother."

Klaus took her hand in his, squeezing it gently in support as they continued down the highway.

~x~

Elena frowned as her thirteenth call to Stefan went unanswered. They were all at the boarding house, trying to figure out where Stefan was. It had been eight hours since Katherine had brought the cure and he hadn't returned. Elena was beginning to believe that he truly was gone with Klaus like Katherine said.

"You're not going to find him." Katherine said as she walked in, "they were leaving right away. They were probably gone before I even got here with the cure."

"But where would they go? And why did he need Stefan?" Elena whined.

Damon winced, thinking of the one reason Klaus would want Stefan. He just hoped that it wasn't true. He really didn't need to deal with cleaning his brothers messes again. He had done enough of that in the twenties and without Lexi here, he had no clue how to bring Stefan back once he went down that road.

"Isn't it obvious? Stefan has become Klaus' little puppet. By now he's probably fast on his way to being the big bad Stefan he was in the twenties." Katherine smirked and walked out, leaving Damon to deal with the questions.