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Katerina
The door to the Salvatore Boarding House opened by Damon who looked at Elena and I with a smirk.
"Hello Elena" He said. "Alex" He nodded at me. Elena sighed.
"Stefan here?" Elena asked. I looked at her and rolled my eyes, of course he was here. He just called us. "He called, said it was important"
"Right this way" Damon replied. We walked into the house and I looked back at Damon.
"You alright?" I whispered. He just shook his head as if to say, 'not the time'. I nodded and turned to face Stefan.
"Hey" He said to us. I smiled at him.
"What is this about?" Elena asked. She had been really annoyingly distant since we had been kidnapped, I mean come on, nothing happened; we're all safe and well and Elijah was dead. Stefan moved to the side and Rose walked out from one of the many Salvatore rooms. Elena's eyes widened in shock and I just looked on at Rose sympathetically.
"You?" Elena said, stunned. Rose just gave a very small wave that caused me to snort in laughter. I'm not very good in awkward situations. Stefan just gave Elena a nod and she sighed.
"I'm guessing this is going to be a long discussion." I said
"There's nothing to discuss, I don't want her near me." Elena replied. "She tried to barter Alex and I off to Elijah."
"For her own freedom" I reminded Elena.
"Why are you taking her side?" She demanded of me.
"Well if you had been running for 500 years I'm sure you'd do the same to a person you don't even know." I said. "Its what people do. Even if those people are the undead. They look out for number 1." Elena huffed and made to leave but Damon stood in her way.
"Lets talk this over shall we?" He said. "Somewhere more comfortable." He motioned to the library.
Stefan made himself comfortable on the arm rest of the couch, Damon stood off to the right behind another couch and I settled myself down nicely between both of the boys. Elena sat down next to me and Rose walked towards the fireplace.
"Look, you have to understand, I only know what I've picked up over the years. I don't know what's true and what's not true. That's the problem with all this vampire crap. But Klaus I know is real." Rose said to us pacing in front of the fireplace.
"Who is he?" Elena asked. Wow she really did love that question.
"One of the originals" Damon replied. "He's a legend"
"From the first generation of vampires" Stefan added.
"Yeah Elena knows that." I told them. "Kinda drilled it into her head when we were kidnapped. She just couldn't seem to understand." Elena glared at me and Rose smiled at the memory.
"Like Elijah?" Elena asked.
"No." Rose responded "Elijah was the easter bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot solider. Klaus is the real deal."
"Klaus is known to be the oldest" Stefan said.
"Wow, do think he's hot? Or would that be too weird, being with a guy that old? Depends on what age he died at I guess." I said. Damon and Stefan scowled at me and I grinned.
"Okay" Elena said getting us back on track. "So you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after me?"
"No." Stefan said at the same time Rose said "Yes"
"What they're saying is, I mean if what she's saying is true" Damon said.
"Which it is" Rose butted in.
"And you're not just saying it so we don't kill you" He continued
"Which I'm not" She added.
"Then we're looking at a solid...maybe." Damon finished.
"The world really does revolve around you, doesn't it Elena." I sneered getting up and walking behind the couch.
"Look Elijah's dead, right? So no one else even knows that you exist" Stefan said, trying to make her feel more at ease.
"Not that you know of" Rose replied. I chuckled from my place behind the couch and she looked up at me with a small smile.
"That's not helping" Damon said.
"Why should we be helping?" I asked. "Elena has to know what's in store for her so she can prepare herself for it. So we can prepare ourselves. If we don't know what's coming we won't be able to protect ourselves."
"When did you get so wise?" Damon sneered. I just stuck my tongue out at him.
"Look I've never even met anyone who's laid eyes on him." Stefan offered. "We're talking centuries of truth, mixed with fiction. We don't know he's real, for all we know he could be some stupid bedtime story" Stefan said looking back at Elena.
"He's real" Rose urged. "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."
"Alright we're shaking. You've made you're point." Damon said sarcastically
"Damon, be nice to the friendless vampire." I said to him. Rose just glared. Elena and I both must have thought the same thing at the same time because the second I looked down at her, she looked up at me. She made to get up and I followed her.
"Where you going?" Stefan asked. We looked back around and glanced at each other.
"School, we're late." Elena said
"Let me grab my stuff, I'll go with you." Stefan said.
"Its okay." Elena replied. "I know where it is."
"Don't wait up." I added as we left the house.
"The return of bitchy Elena" I said as we walked to her car. "I like it"
"Shut up Alex." She told me. I held my hands up in mock surrender and got into the car.
"We're not really going to school right?" I asked her, making sure we really had been having a case of twin telepathy.
"Of course not" She said as she started the engine and pulled out of the Salvatore driveway. I smirked to myself. Now this was the Elena I liked.
Caroline, Elena and I walked through the woods, Elena struggling with a heavy bag.
"Tell everyone we weren't feeling well and we went home from school." Elena said to Caroline.
"It won't seem weird that we're both sick, we live together so it should be fine." I added.
"Can't believe I'm agreeing to this." Caroline huffed at us.
"But you are, cause you love us, right?" I asked.
"I'm a terrible liar" Caroline complained.
"Then keep Stefan busy, 'cause I don't want him knowing what I'm up to." Elena said.
"I'm even worse at duplicity. And you both know this." I led the way as we got to the Fell Church remains and ignored the girls behind me.
"You managed to keep me preoccupied when Katherine gave Stefan a visit." Elena rebuffed.
"Yeah, 'cause she threatened me. Not that I'm saying that you should use that as a tactic, its...Stefan's going to see right through me." Caroline moaned. We stopped and I walked back towards them.
"Look Caroline, we know you can do this or we wouldn't have asked you." I told her.
"As our friend, do you promise? Or not?" Elena asked, drawing the friend card. Caroline sighed.
"You had to break out the girlfriend code." She huffed. Elena and I looked at her. "Okay, I promise." We nodded and continued on our path through the woods. Elena taking the lead. "I don't see why you're doing this." Caroline said to me.
"There's some big nasty bad person out to get Elena and as her twin I am bound to help." I replied looking at my sister ahead of us.
"Even if it puts you in danger?" She asked
"Even if it causes my death." I said to her seriously before speeding up to join Elena.
"Why don't you want Stefan to know?" Caroline asked as she caught up to us.
"Because he would never be okay with us doing this." Elena said as she walked down the stairs of the demolished church.
"Yeah he's very protective sometimes." I agreed, following Elena. Caroline sighed.
We got into the outside area of the tomb and Caroline stopped us.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" She asked.
"Yes I'm sure." Elena said. Caroline looked at me.
"You know my answer" I said to her seriously.
"She's the only one who knows the truth about Klaus." Elena admitted. "The only one who could tell me how to stop him."
"But, you're asking for the truth from someone who's probably never given it." Caroline said. She did have a point but I was behind my twin 100%. "Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, I can't just sit back and wait. I have to know Caroline." Elena replied. Caroline looked towards the door and back at us. "Please." Caroline walked over to the door and opened it. Elena and I looked towards the tomb.
"Katherine?" We said at the same time. Elena looked back at Caroline. "We'll be okay from here." She said to Caroline. She looked hesitant so I decided to chip in.
"Honestly, she can't touch us. We'll be fine." I told Caroline. Caroline left just as Katherine came into the light.
"Hello girls." She said to us hoarsely. "You come to watch me wither away? Stefan know you're here?"
"I brought you some things." Elena said. Katherine scoffed.
"You came to bribe me? What is it you want?" Katherine asked.
"We're not here to start a fight, Katherine." I told her, she just smirked at me.
"I want you to tell us about Klaus." Elena said as she threw a blanket into the tomb. Katherine hummed.
"You've been busy." She smirked.
"We also brought you this." Elena said as she brought out a large book from the bag she was carrying. "Its your family history. It says in here that the family line ended with you." Katherine grew annoyed. I could see it on her face. "Obviously that's not true." I smirked.
"You think that if you brought me some family keepsake then I'd open up?" Katherine started.
"I also brought you this." I said, going over to the bag and taking out a bottle of blood and showing it to Katherine. She tried to run over to me but the spell stopped her.
"You don't look so good. How long before your body shuts down? 10, 20 years? It must be painful to desiccate and mummify. I can't even imagine" Elena said, taunting her.
"Yeah, must be awfully painful. So slow." I mocked. Katherine glared at us and sat down on the floor of the tomb. I poured some blood into a glass and pushed it towards her with a stick I found. She greedily took it.
"You have the Petrova fire. Both of you." Katherine commented.
"More blood?" I asked, shaking the bottle in her face. She put the glass back on the floor and pushed it towards me. I refilled it and gave it back.
"It's a long story, Klaus and I. It goes all the way back to England, 1492, after I left Bulgaria or was thrown out." Katherine recounted.
"Thrown out?" Elena and I asked at the same time.
"My family, your true ancestors, they disowned me. My indiscretions were not tolerated at that time. I had a baby out of wedlock. The shame" Katherine said rolling her eyes.
"It was kept secret?" Elena asked.
"Hum hum. My baby was given away. I was banished to England and I had to learn to adjust so I quickly became English. It was there that I caught the eye of a noble man name Klaus. I was taken with him at first until I found out what he was and what he wanted from me and then I ran like hell." Katherine admitted.
"So what did Klaus want?" I asked Katherine.
"The same thing that he wants from your sister. He wants to break the curse." Katherine told us.
"By sacrificing the Petrova doppleganger." Elena remembered.
"He wanted to drain every single drop of blood from my body." Katherine smirked. Elena and I looked at each other knowing what was in store for Elena.
I gave another glass to Katherine and she drunk it in seconds. Elena was pacing behind me, trying to let the news sink in.
"What does the Petrova bloodline have to do with Klaus?" She asked as she stopped pacing.
"It's really tedious but, the curse was binded by the sacrifice of Petrova blood. Witches are crafty with their spells. The doppelganger was created as a way to be able to undo the spell. Once the doppelganger reappeared, the curse can be broken" Katherine told us.
"So you ran before he could kill you?" I asked hoping to get more than cryptic answers.
"Something like that." She replied and I sighed. So much for not cryptic.
"The cottage Trevor told me to run to was inhabited by his friend, Rose." Elena gasped. "Met her have you?" Katherine asked.
"She may have kidnapped us and tried to give us away to Elijah." I told her. Katherine laughed.
"Oh that is rich."
"So Rose didn't end up taking you back to Klaus?" Elena asked.
"No, but not because she had a change of heart." Katherine replied.
"You killed yourself?" Elena breathed.
"Smart." I added and Elena glared at me. "What, Klaus needed her blood, she dies there is no more blood." Katherine nodded at me.
"Klaus needed a human dopppleganger, I was no longer any use to him."She replied.
"But it didn't work. You didn't really escape, you've been running from Klaus ever since." Elena told Katherine. Katherine scowled.
"I under estimated his thirst for vengeance but leaving with a suitcase is better than dying so you can have your blood spilled over some silly little rock." Katherine said. Elena backed away.
"What's wrong? Afraid right?" Katherine asked mockingly. "You don't want to die? There's another way out." She said as she took a nail from the ground in the tomb and sliced her wrist open. However it started to heal. "Better hurry, your oppourtunity is going, going, going and gone." She finished once her wrist had healed. She looked at Elena, dead in the eye. "I made the other choice."
"Rose and Trevor spent the last 500 years running because you used them. Trevor just got killed." I said angrily at her. The fact that she didn't even care, really frustrated me.
"I never thought he would last for that long" Katherine replied seemingly not bothered by this new knowledge.
"You don't even care that you ruined their lives?" Elena asked furious.
"I was looking out for myself, Elena. I will always look out for myself. If you're smart, you'll do the same." Katherine replied, opening the Petrova book. I turned and faced Elena.
"What did I tell you. Everyone only looks out for themselves in the end." I told Elena. She seemed shocked. "Don't look so surprised. Deep down you knew it. You just didn't want to admit that you did. Always holding out for that shred of hope that people are decent, but guess what Elena. People aren't decent. And you're a prime example of that."
"What? What do you mean me?" She asked.
"Oh come on. You let everyone around you risk their lives for you on a seemingly daily basis. All of them would die for you and you exploit that so you can go on your ridiculous journeys of self worth. Do you know how many people would be so much safer if you weren't constantly putting yourself in harm's way." I argued.
"I am always trying to protect them." She said.
"And its because you think you can protect them that they end up getting hurt. You're not a vampire Elena, you're not super strong or fast. You're human and you can easily die or get hurt. You just don't think sometimes and I'm sick of it."
"Why is this any of your business." She defended.
"Because I'm your sister. I would die for you Elena, and I'm starting to think I'm gonna end up dead the way you're going. If you stopped to think about others, or made plans at least, everyone would be a lot safer." I shouted.
"You're my sister, you're meant to be on my side." She argued.
"Don't start that bullshit with me again, Elena. I'm always on your side. Everyone is on your side." I told her.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that everyone prefers you over me. I'm just an extra add on. Its like I'm not even meant to be here." I yelled.
"They don't, Alex." Elena said coming towards me.
"Yes they do. And you want to know the worst part?" I asked tears forming in my eyes. "I have to live with that knowledge everyday, and pretend that I don't see it in our friends eyes when they talk to us. Pretend that I don't know how little they actually care. See them praise you and just glance over me. We're twins, we're meant to be treated equally but we're not Elena. We're just not." I finished, tears streaming down my face. Elena had tears forming in her eyes too. I wiped away my tears and turned back to face Katherine who was watching us intently.
"You're lucky Elena." Katherine said.
"What do you mean?" Elena sighed, turning to face Katherine as well.
"You have someone who will always be there for you. I wouldn't exploit it if I were you." She told us.
"You're showing actual emotion? That's a change." I said glaring at Katherine.
"Look, I'm just saying that you're right. You deserve more than second best." Katherine said to me. She turned her head towards Elena but kept her eyes on me. "But she's not going to be the person that gives you it."
Elena continued pacing around the outside of the tomb. She looked at Katherine and stopped.
"So how much of your little story is true?" She asked.
"I have no reason to lie, Elena. I have no reason to do anything other than sit here, read and rot." I scoffed.
"Okay, assuming it's even partially true, that's the reason why you came back isn't it? Because you wanted to be the one to hand me over to Klaus" Elena continued.
"500 years on the run, I figured maybe he'd be willing to strike a deal." Katherine said.
"So you got Mason Lockwood to find you the moonstone." I chipped in.
"Right." Katherine replied
"What else do you need to break the curse?" Elena asked.
"Hmm, you two are quite the team together. Quite smart." Katherine mocked.
"It's not just me or the stone, is it? Otherwise that you'd have no reason to trigger Tyler Lockwood's werewolf curse" Elena said.
"Witches and their spells, so many ingredients, so many people to sacrifice." Katherine said.
"They really like their sacrifices don't they. Maybe all witches are sadists." I said. Katherine laughed.
"So you need a werewolf." Elena said, ignoring me as usual.
"Believe it or not, they're hard to come by." Katherine said.
"They seem to be all in Florida. That's where Mason was, apparently that place was crawling with them." I said.
"What else?" Elena asked.
"A witch to do the spell. Mine bailed but Bonnie will do just fine." Katherine replied.
"What else?" Elena asked.
"Well if its the sun and the moon curse, you'd need a vampire as well. Am I right?" I asked Katherine. She nodded.
"Caroline." Elena whispered.
"It could have been anyone I suppose, but I like the poetry of Caroline." Katherine said smiling.
"So you were just going to hand us all over to be killed?" Elena asked.
"Better you die than I" Katherine said as she walked back into the tomb.
"And we're back to what I said earlier." I said turning to face Elena.
"You were right." She said looking at the floor.
"I'm pretty sure I'm always right." I said. She wrapped her arms around herself in an effort to comfort herself. I walked over to her and wrapped her up in a hug. "I will try my best to make sure Klaus doesn't get his way. I promise." Elena nodded in my embrace. I understood that she was shocked and upset but I couldn't help but notice that she didn't say she would do the same for me. Maybe I was reading too much into things but I couldn't help but feel Elena valued her own life more than mine.
Stefan entered the tomb not too long after our conversation with Katherine ended.
"Elena, Alex."
"Stefan, what are you doing here?" Elena asked.
"I could ask you the same question." he replied.
"Caroline told you" Elena said sighing.
"No, she kept your secret but it didn't take long for me to figure out what was that important that you'd have to keep it from me." Stefan said.
"I knew that you'd stop us" Elena said
"Listen to me, whatever she said to you is a lie. Do not listen to her. She's a liar, Elena." He said coming closer to us.
"What if she isn't? You didn't hear what she said." I replied causing Stefan to focus on me.
"You don't have to worry, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." He told Elena, cupping her face.
"That's the problem, it's exactly what Alex was saying. You won't but you'll die trying. How's that any better?" Elena whispered. Hearing Stefan's voice, Katherine made her way back to the tomb's entrance.
"There's nothing you can do, Stefan. I haven't even told you the best part of the story. He killed them, my entire family just to get back at me for running. Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance on your friends, your family and anyone that you've ever loved." Katherine explained. Elena's eyes widened and started filling with tears. Stefan looked at her.
"No, look at me. No, do not listen to her, okay?" He said, trying to comfort her. Katherine rolled her eyes.
"Always the protector but you must realize that she's doomed. There's nothing you can do to stop it unless of course you have this." She raised the moonstone so we could all see. Elena looked at her shocked where as I just rolled my eyes and scoffed.
"I knew you were full of it. Always out for number 1." I said.
"What?" Elena asked
"Oh no, there it is. It's the ultimate lie, isn't it? You spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the stone from you, didn't you?" He said accusingly.
"I didn't spin anything, Stefan. It's the truth" Katherine replied.
"No, let me guess. You want to trade that stone for your freedom, you manipulative, psychotic bitch" He spat at her.
"My freedom? That's where you're wrong, Stefan. I don't want my freedom because when Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, I'll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can't get out. I'll be the safest psychotic bitch in town" Katherine said smiling as she walked back into the tomb.
We got back to our house late at night and I went up to the door when Stefan stopped Elena.
"Elena."
"I can't talk about it Stefan." She exclaimed.
"You have to. Don't shut me out Elena, please." Stefan begged.
"I wanted to know the truth, Stefan and I got it. It's not just me that's in danger. It's Caroline and it's Tyler and its Bonnie. They're all part of breaking the curse. I can't blame anyone else anymore because it's not because you came into town or because you and I fell in love. That's not why everyone that I love is in danger. It's because of me, everything is because of me" She cried and ran past me into the house. Stefan sighed and looked at me.
"Are you ok?" He asked looking at me.
"You know, you're the first person to ask me that since the night we got kidnapped." I said to him sitting on the porch steps. He came and sat beside me. "Is it selfish of me to want someone to care?" I asked him.
"We all care Alex, you know that." He replied.
"Not the way you care for Elena. You all seem to worship the ground she walks on and I don't get it cause she's the one who's leading you all to your deaths." I said.
"I don't know how to explain it, Alex." Stefan said.
"There's nothing to explain Stefan. It's fine." I said standing up and turning towards my front door. Stefan caught my wrist and spun be towards him.
"I may love Elena." He said. "But you will always be my best friend." He smiled at me and pulled me into his arms. I sighed and wrapped my arms around his waist.
"Thank you Stefan. Sorry for my drama." I said chuckling.
"It's alright." He replied. I opened my front door. "After all, you're only human." He said walking down our drive. I looked back at him and sighed. If only he knew what really was going on with me.
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