Chapter 4

"y-your 1,000 years o-old?" Elena stutters in disbelief. Brittany places a hand on Elena's knee.

"about... 1,000. Only off by two years." Brittany tries to jokes. It kinda works, but not a lot.

"so, when did you get your, 'abilities'." Elena questions, still in shock.

"age 18, that's why I look 18. Duh." Brittany kids. Elena chuckles.

"how did you discover you had powers?"

"well, one day as I walked through the woods, I stumbled upon my favorite pond. Since I love the water, I couldn't resist running into it. I dived in. but when I went under, I discovered I could breath. I was completely shocked."

"wow. Did you train or something?" Brittany smirks.

"yeah, not really. Maybe one day I can so you my awesome moves." Brittany stands up from her chair and shows Elena her(fake) karate skills. Elena starts cracking up, which makes Brittany laugh, too. She sits back down and finishes her half eaten pancake. "anything else?"

"only one I can think of at the moment, what did Elijah want?" Brittany nearly chokes on her last bite of pancake. She hesitates, then says shyly,

"oh, it's... nothing."

"oh come on! You might be good at a lot of things, but like me, your a terrible liar. Now you said everything, so spill." Brittany gives in.

"ok, do you want the long version, or the short."

"short."

"Elijah wants this object that in my 'possession' called a Hybrid ring." Elena was about to ask something, but Brittany interrupts. "that's the short version."

"ok, the long version." Elena says, sounding a little annoyed. Brittany puts her hands up in defense.

"hey, you said short, not me. Anyways, did anyone tell you how Klaus became a hybrid?" Elena nods.

"his first kill as a vampire triggered his werewolf gene."

"yeah, so there's some kind of lope-hole Elijah's after to kill Klaus and if you use the ring correctly, you can kill him."

"wait, so you have it?" Elena asks excitedly. Brittany smiles sadly.

"not with me at the moment, but I know where it is." she answers. Elena jumps up from her chair.

"well then, lets get it!" Brittany tries to calm her down.

"hold on, don't you think there's a reason I haven't killed him yet?" Elena stops bouncing.

"why?"

"well, first of all, it takes a lot of power to destroy it, and second, remember how you told me that if an original dies, so does it's entire blood line?" then it clicks for Elena.

"and I'm part of that blood line."

"yeah, and because I would need to fine a lope-hole for the other lope-hole and it's just too confusing." Brittany complains, jokingly. "so that's it?" she stands up from her chair.

"yeah... well," Elena says suddenly. Brittany huffs in annoyance and sits back down.

"seriously, make up your mind. Now, what is it?"

"why are you so pissed at Elijah? I've never seen you so angry before." Brittany looks away.

"trust me when I say, you've never seen me pissed. And you'd be pissed off too if he did this to you."

"but what did he do?" Elena insists. Brittany sighs. She turns back to Elena.

"he killed my entire family." she says with sad eyes. Elena's eyes widen.

"what?" was all she says.

"he killed my parents... and my brother." tears slightly fell from Brittany's eyes as Elena stares in shock.

"you had a brother?"

"yeah, and he was my best friend. Elijah always says he's alive when he wants something from me, but I haven't seen him. Talk about honorable, huh?" Elena thinks a bit.

"what if he's telling the truth?" Brittany's eyes fill with the slightest of hope. She wipes them away quickly, but it doesn't go unnoticed to Elena. "you believe him, don't you?" it wasn't really a question. Brittany feels tears stream down her face some more and wipes them away as fast as possible.

"I hope so, but if he is alive, he's probably a vampire." she glances to the ground. Elena pats her back.

"it's ok, will find him and will break this stupid lope-hole. I know we will. We can even kick Elijah's dead ass." they chuckle, then sit in silence for a while, thinking.


After a while, Elena couldn't stand stand the silence. She has never seen Brittany this upset before. She mentally promised to kill Elijah for bringing such dreadful pain to her best-friend.

"hey Brit, why don't you show me some of your 'moves'?" she suggests with air quotes. Brittany laughs, but agrees.

"so where should we go?" Brittany asks.

"lets go back to the pond." and they head out.


When they arrive, another question goes through Elena's mind. What's her brother's name? She thought.

"his name's Kevin." Brittany answers.

"you can read minds? Wow, you really can do a lot." Brittany just nods.

"so, what are you going to show me?" Brittany smirks, slightly. They reach the edge of the pond.

"jump." Brittany grabs Elena's hand.

"wait what?" she doesn't have time to process anything.

"jump!" Brittany yells as they jump in. Once there deep enough, Brittany starts to talk.

"see? You can talk and breath now." Elena unplugs her nose and looks around in disbelief.(Vampires can't die from water, but it can knock the wind out of them if they can't get enough air.) Elena watches as fish swim by and looks at all the underwater plants.

"this is amazing." She gushes. Brittany smiles.

"I know, now you see why I love water." and they just float, enjoying the remainder of the day.

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