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The Dopplegänger Cycle

A breath was sucked in and Elena immediately turned to look at Rebekah. "Sounds like sleeping beauty is finally awake." Klaus said as he slowly turned the vehicle to the side of the road. The other car behind them, the one that had been following them now for who knows how long repeated the action as well.

The car pulled to a gentle stop and Klaus turned off the engine before he popped open his door and slid out. Her door was opened and turned to find the mischievous face of Kol. "Hello again Elena how's your afternoon going?" He asked.

"Stuffy." She replied as she slid out of the car alongside him. Turning back to the car she saw that Rebekah was wide awake and it still looked as if she were dead, her face and eyes were completely void of any emotion, any thought, it was like she was just an alive zombie.

"Kol I think this is as good as time as any to move the bags." Klaus said. "Come on Elena, looks like we're the moving people today." Kol said as he dragged her along to his car. "Is your sister gonna be okay?" She asked quietly as she slid into the passenger's side of the car as Kol slid in the drivers seat. She was hoping that if she called the blonde by her familial title that maybe, just maybe she'd get a more sentimental answer.

"While I've been through my fair share of tragedies, I've never had someone hijack my body, especially by any of my family. … We've just gotta be there, that's all a person truly needs, vampire and human alike, they just need someone there for them." Kol replied softly.

"I think getting far away from home is all she needs really. She'll be happy with some good food in her belly and being with Nik and me … it'll be like old times kind of. … With you as our new addition to our group of course."

"Did the three of you spend a lot of time together in the past?" Elena asked carefully, she knew Klaus to a point but she didn't truly know anything of the youngest brother. "About a good lifetime back in Mystic Falls, about another in New York before they put me down."

"They put you down together?" She had never realized that Klaus had had help with his siblings. "Yeah kind lost my head for a while there … again. And with word of Micheal in the area we were trying not to bring attention to ourselves but I was ruining it for us." He replied.

"I see." She said as she soaked up the new information. "Yeah … so" He said as they ran out of things to talk about. He turned to her then in his seat and frowned at her seriously as he spoke and she didn't mean to laugh at him she just couldn't help it. "I don't mean to prod about your business and all but I have to ask how in the hell do you deal with your brother?"

She knew he was being serious but as he continued to stare at her with that serious pout on his face she couldn't help but laugh. "I'm being serious, the whole first couple of days with that boy and it was so depressing and I lived during the dark ages and he only got worse when he got high and even when he wasn't he still was lame, he just sat around and thought things that weren't funny even when high were. Honestly had it not been for Klaus I would have run away … far, far away."

She couldn't help her next words but they made him laugh as well and she felt really relaxed after words. "In a far away land."

"Well there you have it folks rumors are actually right, Elena Gilbert is in fact pretty damn fun … although if I may say I'd still like to get to know the girl the kids back at home talk so much about."

She smirked sadly at him as she remembered the girl who used to sneak out and party with her friends. "Yeah I do to."

They were silent after that and Elena jumped at the sound of harsh knocking on the window next to Kol and watched as Klaus opened the door with. "What ever happened to getting the bags?" He asked.

Kol looked over at Elena with a cheeky grin as he spoke for both of them. "We had better things to do than follow your orders." Elena spoke up then. "You already know that I'm all for not listening to you." Klaus rolled his eyes as he spoke. "Of course."

He looked back to the other car for a moment before turning back to them. "Get the bags now Kol and Elena move to the back." He was at the other car before either of them could object. Kol turned his attention back to her. "It was worth a shot … It seems though that we've become the lackey's now that his are nowhere to be seen."

She sighed as she opened the car door. "You're the lackey … I'm another piece of luggage."

"Actually you're more like a precious trinket that only my brother would find sentimentality in." Really she didn't know which was worse and he seemed to get that part from her facial expressions as he continued on. "A piece of luggage is thrown around and not truly appreciated, a trinket on the other hand is always nearby or on hand it's a special artifact."

"Now I'm an artifact?" She asked skeptically. "Better than being a piece of luggage." He replied.

"Kol!" Klaus yelled. Kol frowned. "He keeps this up and I'm gonna put that god damned dagger back in my own chest." He said before he zipped passed her eyes and was at the other car. She shook her head amusedly as she got out of the car.

Turning around and looking at the three siblings that were talking amongst each other she turned her attention back to the empty road, she could run now, she probably wouldn't get far at all, they'd hear her feet move before she could actually start running.

While she was here on her own violations it didn't mean she wanted to actually be here, now that Jeremy had called it made her see that her family, her friends they needed her and she was thinking about running away. She opened the backseat and moved in, her eyes stopped at the sight of the keys that hang from the ignition and she knew that she could probably get away a little faster with the car, but how far till she got caught and what sort of punishment would she get? So far they had treated her kindly.

She took a deep breath as she closed her eyes; she was there on her own accord, there was no need to think about running. That was needed for later when she decided she wanted to go back home and Klaus went back on his promise.

The other passenger's door opened and she watched as Klaus moved in with a small smirk on his face. "Well this is certainly a nice surprise; I would have thought you would have taken the bait and ran by now love." He said.

She should have known that he'd planned to have her run; she'd forgotten what Katherine had said once. "He's got a love for the chase; cat and mouse games are his strengths." She needed to keep that in mind or she might as well forfeit control to him.

Turning her attention away from him because she did remember that he was self-loving and nearly depended on attention she focused her attention on the car in front of them only to find that it wasn't there anymore. "Where did the others go?" She asked.

"Taking care of any tracks your boys might try to follow." Klaus replied easily. Another deep breath and deep exhale, she didn't like how he'd said that. "They're not mine." She replied quietly.

She saw in the corner of her eye as Klaus rolled his eyes. "You're right I was mistaken … The Salvatore's belong to Katerina."

She didn't know if he took pleasure in reminding her that Katerina was the one both the Salvatore men had been in love with first or if he did it unconsciously to remind himself that she was just another doppelgänger. "They don't belong to her either." She replied.

Klaus scoffed at her and he spoke with a spiteful tone only to be interrupted by Kol and Rebekah as they got into the car. "Why of course. I mean it's not like I don't know everything about Stephan and Damon Salvatore. You know-."

"Sorry, it took a little longer to figure out what to do with the car Nik." Kol replied as he slid into the drivers sear. Rebekah was silent as she slid into the seat in front of Elena. The realization that she was going to have to ride next to an annoyed Klaus for who knew how long began to settle in as the car started.

"So where are we off to now?" Kol asked as he moved the car into the empty road. "Just keep to the road till I say so." Klaus replied

She really needed to get out of the car soon. If he kept up his attitude she would eventually try to kill him herself … just run as fast as she really could. There was a higher success chance of her living through trying to runaway than her trying to kill him.

"Kol do you remember when we first met the first doppelgänger?"

The question rang in her ears and she didn't take any notice of it, she figured that Klaus was trying to push her buttons and get her to react in some way to amuse him. "The first, first? Or the first doppelgänger?"

That caught her attention and she knew that Klaus knew he had caught it too the only thing left to do was pretend as if she had already found out. Meaning she would have to bluff it. She needed to think quickly, it was obvious that all she knew of was three … hers. So the original girl would have had to have been there when they had been human right? Or did she come after they were turned? Either or there was a thousand year gap between her and … herself?

… She was going to get used to that eventually.

Still she doubted she was going to be called 'doppelgänger' and Katherine hadn't come until five-hundred years after that and if Klaus talked about her he always called her 'Katerina', and then there was herself … now there were three different things Klaus called her by. Other than her name she had the nicknames of 'Love', 'My girl', and her personal favorite was 'Doppelgänger.'

So when the original family starts their Petrova girl talk or whatever it is they call it, she pays attention and knows who they are talking about or figure it out. "Oh yes, what was her name again? It was something with an 'S' Svetlana, Svetla? …" Kol began and it was Rebekah who decided to stop him from going through every name beginning with the letter 'S' "Steren."

Kol snapped his fingers happily "Ah yes, that was it Steren … Shame really, she truly was a fantastic artist. … I mean do you remember how she went out? That was an artful death right, graceful, tasteful, elegant even for a peasant like herself."

Klaus was watching her she could feel his eyes on her very skin and she really didn't like it, he was trying to gauge a reaction from her and she knew that if she gave him what he wanted he would never see her as nothing more than another footnote in his memoirs.

"Do you remember how long after we turned that we found out about her?" Kol was silent for a moment and she could tell as she moved her eyes to look at him that he was truly trying to remember it was only when his eyes made contact with her own that he spoke. "A century exactly after the death of …" He stopped then letting the sentence hang in the air and she closed her eyes, absorbing the information in and trying to figure out what his angle was.

"And after Steren what was the doppelgänger's name after that?" Klaus asked. "Roxanne." Kol replied quickly. "And after Roxanne?" "Oliana, then after her it was Nadia, then Marcella, and after that it was Licia, after her it was Katerina, then Juliana, then Genevieve. …"

She kept her eyes closed and concentrated on her breathing as Rebekah seemed to be able to perfectly recall all names that had been unknown to her. "Nine doppelgänger's in nine centuries and what did all of them have in common minus the screwed up love lives and the horrible taste in men?"

"They all had bastard children from unknown men and died some few years after that." Kol replied in a soft tone.

She hadn't realized it until she felt the wetness hit beneath her eyes that she had began crying. Crying because she should have died just like all of them and now, her parents were dead, her aunt was dead, John was dead, Isabel was dead …. And Jeremy.

Had she followed in the same path as her previous selves her family would have been alive still.

"Are you telling me that Klaus doesn't need an invitation to get into human homes?!"

Damon looked over to the eldest original in shock and worry as he waited for him to say something. It was his brother that spoke this time. "Actually he does, I suspect that when Elena died the claim she had on the house as well as our house was broken."

He stared at his brother waiting for him to continue. "Meaning what? We brought her back to life and last I checked she was a hundred percent human." He exclaimed he could feel the hysterics in his tone as he spoke and he didn't like letting the older vampire in the room know that what they were talking about was bothering him this much.

"She's not human though." Elijah spoke finally as he finally entered into the new topic of conversation. "At least not a hundred percent, Elena is the product of magic that was created the day Esther took her life." He continued in that calm stature of his own.

"Tatia's." He wasn't going to allow him to call her that name she wasn't that girl she was Elena, their Elena Gilbert that gave everything she could to her loved ones, even when they didn't deserve it. "Tatia's life was taken by Esther not Elena's, Klaus killed Elena, not Tatia Elena. Tatia is the one who couldn't decide between you and your psycho ass brother not Elena, Tatia –" "I get it, Elena is Elena, not Tatia, forgive me, it is hard to differentiate the doppelgänger's from one another sometimes … While personalities and their hobbies are all different from one another, their faces are all the same. … And when you're as old as I am centuries all seem to blend to gather at some point."

He knew exactly what he was talking about, after some many decades everything seemed like it was the same day, always the same years, the same clothes the same hair, even when they truly weren't.

"I believe that perhaps nature see's Elena as a ghost. … In a lot of ways that's what she is in actuality. She wears the face of Tatia. … and she is in fact dead, her body rotted and turned to dust in the very soil this town was built upon." Elijah continued.

"So nature doesn't see Elena as the living, and she's not a walking corpse either … what does that mean? Does that mean the witch is gonna be told to kill her?"

There was a sigh and a gloomy look upon the two other vampires faces as they looked at him. "You two should never agree upon something because I know it's a bad omen when you do." Damon said warily.

"Perhaps if we kept this information under lock and key we will be able to keep Elena alive, if Klaus has her, I'm sure he'll do whatever is necessary to keep her alive and well. Her blood is the key to making vampire-werewolf hybrids. I know my brother he will not allow any harm to come from her, even if that means from himself. … Her sanity on the other hand is the only thing we should worry about. We all know about what happened to Katerina."

"And with Barbie Klaus and pretty boy riding along like we believe they are Elena's sanity is officially is in a losing battle."

Elijah tipped his head to the side as he replied softly. "Possibly, she's a smart girl though I'm sure she knows how to keep herself from falling into their games by now. You must remember she was the one to finally get Rebecca to turn against Klaus after all. … If she could do that she can give herself that much more time for us to figure out where she is and get her away from my brother before he creates more hybrids."

"I don't like the sound of living it to fate to see if Elena will live." He replied, and he didn't. He'd already left more than his fair share of choices to fate and none of them turned out to his likings ever. He'd actually come to find that fate was more than just a bitch with him, she was sadistic and crazier than all of the crazy women he'd been with combined. … And boy did he have his list of crazies, a very long, long list of crazies alright.

"It's the only thing you can do, I will reach out to Niklaus and some of my old connections that have been keeping tabs on him for me. He'll turn up eventually and we will bring bang Elena." Elijah responded/

That seemed to cause something in his mind to crack and he felt a twitch in his eye and a pop of a vein. "Exactly how long did it take you to track your crazy brother down last time? Oh that's right nearly three hundred years!" He began as he stood up from his sitting position.

Stephan was quick to step between the two and that only angered him more. "Calm down." His little brother said. "We don't have three hundred years, Elena is human unless she founds some sort of way to stay alive without becoming a vampire she will be dead by then!"

"I understand your concern but I assure you I did catch up with him more than enough times over the years."

"You caught up with him, but he always slipped through your fingers. … We can't have that shit happen this time, he has Elena and the longer she's with him the more chances of her turning out like Katherine!"

"Damon we already know." Stephan replied softly. That only seemed to bug him more. "Then why the hell are we standing around talking about it?! We should be out there trying to find her instead the first thing we do is call the guy who's already betrayed us more than enough times!"

"Just calm down, getting angry won't help." Stephan said as he tried to force him back down. "Don't touch me! If you want to leave Elena's life in this guys hands then that's your choice, but I'm gonna go out and find her."

He walked out of the house with a migraine and he knew that he was being a fool; he hadn't a single clue as to where to start looking for Klaus or who to talk to. If a witch knew him, she was most likely working for him; if he ever tracked a lead to a human they were most likely compulsed to not speak about him to him. If he tracked down a werewolf, he would get absolutely nowhere and nothing from then as they didn't speak to vampires.

Hybrids, he scoffed. He wasn't an idiot and to get involved with them was completely idiotic, they were like mindless hyienas and they'd probably jump him and literally eat him before he could actually say anything to them.

"Turn at the dirt road." Klaus said as he put his phone back into his jacket pocket. Elena sighed they'd been driving for hours and her body was beginning to ache as she kept her position. She knew by now that they were somewhere dip Maryland and that Klaus looked to be getting more than anxious, happy even that he found a way to track werewolves down without actually having to guess or smell them out.

"How much longer are we going to be stuck in this damned contraption Nik? It's starting to feel incredibly stuffy in here." Kol whined.

Klaus turned to her with a smirk as he rolled his eyes before speaking. "Kol you're a vampire is it even possible for something to feel stuffy when you don't actually breathe?" He asked.

"Doesn't matter I want out of this damned car!" Kol replied angrily with a growl. Those blue eyes of his turned her way again before he replied. "Don't worry it'll only be a few more minutes before we reach our destination." He said.

She quirked an eyebrow questioningly at his words and it seemed the others were just as curious as they turned to him. He nudged his head to the side where she sat as he spoke once more. "Look out the window."

As she turned her head to look out just like she said she actually saw the small cabin right at the edge of the road and her breath caught in her throat as the car continued to move and the view of what was beyond the small cabin amazed her.

"Is that a? …." Rebekah lost her words as she unrolled her window. Klaus finished for her. "A colony of werewolves? Why yes, yes it is."

Beyond the small cabin were at least five more cabins and at least twice that many wood and cobblestone homes that surrounded a large house that was made from the same materials and people looked happy and were talking amongst each other and children were playing out in the open. It was nothing like she would have guessed.

The closer they got, the more people noticed them and the more people became on edge, they could obviously smell the two vampires and hybrids within the car.

"Nik you just drove us in to the lion's den." Kol said in a strained voice. "No I believe I lead us to a pack and you drove us in to their territory." Klaus replied with a dimple deepened smile.

As they pulled to a stop in the middle of the colony Elena watched as girl no more than thirteen ran away from the sight of their car and fled to the large house they had just parked in front of.

"Nik!" Rebekah cried angrily. "Oh don't get carried away with terror little sister, it's going to be another five days until they shift, and we'll be gone before then." Klaus said as he opened the car door.

Finally she spoke as she moved to the middle and leaned her head further in between the two siblings. "Is anyone else a little worried about being surrounded by an entire pack of werewolves?" She asked quietly.

Kol replied with a bite in his tone. "Had I known Elena that we were being lead to a pack I wouldn't have come along!"

"So what do we do?" She asked carefully. "I say we get out of here." Kol said as he switched the gears into reverse. "We won't get out of here fast enough Nik will have us by the tail before you can even let go of the brake!" Rebekah whispered quietly.

"Then we'll run." Kol said as he turned to look his sister in the eyes while putting the gears into park and turning the car off. "You are not leaving me here alone with Klaus and a pack of werewolves!" Elena whispered heatedly.

Kol turned to look back at her as he spoke. "Not my problem doll, you made a deal with my brother and you should have known better. I'm not going to get killed just because you don't want to be alone in this."

"Yes you will." Elena replied back. Kol turned away from her as he leaned his head on the neck brace. "Glad to know you're not selfish."

"Will you two stop it, besides Kol running isn't the smartest of ideas, it'll only provoke them into chasing." Rebekah stated. "Then what do we do?" Kol asked.

"Well I for one would stop worrying and get out of the car." They all jumped when they heard that and turned to see Klaus leaning against the backseat of the driver sides door. Elena tried to move away from him but he was quick in moving to the other side and opening the door, as he grasped her wrist and pulled her out with relative ease she cursed his speed and watched as he did the same with Rebekah.

"Come now where are those beautiful smiles?" Klaus said as he dragged them to the steps of the large house. "Nik if we live through this I'm going to kill you a hundred different ways."

"Now that's the spirit!" There was the crazy hybrid they all knew and hated. "Klaus I really think this is a bad idea." Elena said as she tried to hold her ground. Again she hated him as she was nothing more than paperweight for him to pull.

"Their right you know this could be a very bad idea …. And a dumb one as well." The three of them looked up to find a man nearing his mid forties with shaggy dark brown hair and large gray eyes, his skin was tanned and slightly olive. He was tall and slim with broad shoulders and he spoke with an accent that reminded her of Antonio Bandera's and at the same time didn't. He stared down at the three of them in disgust and scrunched his nose as well.

She pushed herself further into Klaus' side trying to become as invisible as possible, Klaus didn't seem to mind one bit as he held her tighter against himself. The action seemed to catch the werewolf's attention as he looked pointedly down at their nearly joint bodies. "You should listen to your women hybrid; besides their choice of a mate they seem smart … for vampires of course."

There was a movement from Rebekah and Klaus seemed to reel her in quickly. "My name is Klaus, not hybrid, and I have every right to be here as you do." Klaus stated as he changed the subject. His name brought on whispers within the colony and Elena could feel their stares. The man look taken back for a moment before he spoke again. "You're the vampire that started all of this."

"No I'm the hybrid that started all of this." Klaus spoke. "So tell me, what gives you the right to come upon our grounds and demand the right to speak to me?" Klaus smirked as he spoke. "So you're the alpha of the pack. …that's interesting."

"I asked you a question hybrid; don't give me a reason to kill you. Words spread about killing hybrids and I'm not shy about the action of chopping heads." That seemed to bring out Klaus' pride as he spoke. "I'd like to see you try. … and as for my right my father was a full-blooded werewolf, he was killed by my mother's husband over one thousand years ago."

"Oh a half-breed bastard … what a tale. … but a brother is a brother, leave the tics outside."

Klaus smirked as he replied haughtily. "This little blonde and the tic in the car are my siblings. … And this tic." He motioned to her by squeezing her tighter against him, as if it wasn't an impossible feat as she was practically a piece of him already. "Is human …. And my girl." Of course, again with the pet names she was beginning to get frustrated with them.

The man seemed surprised that she was human, she didn't see why though, she shouldn't smell of vampire anymore, she had taken a shower at the rest area. Then again she was just cooped up with two original vampires and a hybrid, she was sure her human scent was nearly invisible by now. … That would explain all the glaring she herself was getting.

"Then make sure your siblings don't cause any trouble. … I wouldn't want to anger you brother." The man said before he turned back around and proceeded into the house. Rebekah broke free from Klaus as she screeched.

"What the hell did you just get us into and how dare you call me a tic!"

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