I want to thank all my devoted readers! You are what keeps me going with all my stories. While I love everything I wright your reviews keep a smile on my face and your ideas just might end up in one of the chapters. I also wanted to take this small bit of your time to reply to some of those reviews. I know I've never done that before but I've honestly never known how without giving Katherine and Nicole's friendship away.
I wanted to specifically thank winxgirl1997, Sissymac, and mfmxxx, for their reviews since the last update.
Sissymac: I know right? Hopefully this chapter will live up to the expectations of the love of the episode.
mfmxx: (Chapter 2 review) yes he knew about her but also Katherine was making herself known she he wanted to be sure of who it was before relaxing. (Chapter 6 review) Their is a reason for her working with Katherine and I hope to delve into that a little from here on out until we all know her back story
Sanura Bey
Three Years Ago:
"Where is she?" I asked the man below me with a gun pointed at his chest.
"I told you she's dead! She burned years ago!" He told me and I shot him in the leg again.
"Wrong. See I found a journal some time ago saying she escaped and I need your help tracking her down." I told him then smiled at him sweetly. "So tell me where she is and I'll stop shooting you." I told him.
"The bitch is dead! God your just like her!" He told me and I staked him. I watched him turn gray then left.
"I will find you Katherine! I have something you need and I'm willing to make a deal for it. So find me before they hear about you being alive." I said to nothing as I walked. I assumed she was the presence I'd felt following me for a majority of the year. I just hoped I was right. I needed her help and I knew that running for so long would be tiring for her. She needed me.
"You called me?" I turned quickly with my gun held high.
"Hello Katherine. My name is Nicole Gilbert. I know how you can make a deal with the devil to win your freedom, I just want one thing in return." I told her.
"And why should I help you? I could kill you know and be done with it." she told me smirking. I lowered my gun since I wasn't using it. My arm was cramping anyway.
"I read that man's journal. The one who helped you in Mystic Falls. I can help you stop running from them." I told her and the next thing I knew I was being held by my throat against the wall. Her eyes had turned black and the veins under her eyes were now visible.
"What do you know?" She asked me.
"Klaus."
Present:
Katherine and I were in the Grill when I saw Caroline enter the bathroom.
"Well, well, well. We have our little messenger." I told her signaling over to Care.
"Let's go." We stood up and entered the bathroom as she was washing her hands.
"Elena? Nikky?" she asked us.
"Hey, I saw you with Matt, are you okay?" Katherine asked pretending to care.
"Yeah, you know... whatever." She told us looking down before trying to use her vampire speed to leave but Katherine grabbed her and pulled her back.
"You're good. What gave me away? Was it the hair? Or was it my clothes?" Katherine asked her.
"I know Elena is...I know Elena's at home" She told us.
"That's right, Aunt Jenna gets home from the hospital today." I reminded myself and Katherine.
"I need you to deliver a message." Katherine told her. "Tell Damon and Stefan that I want the moonstone or I will rip this town apart until it rains blood. Tonight, at the masquerade ball." Katherine and I left after that to go shopping for the ball.
Katherine and I entered the bedroom carrying shopping bags with Mrs. Flowers is helping us.
"Where should I put these?" she asked us.
"Right there." Katherine said pointing to a chair.
"Thank you, Mrs. Flowers. You've been such a wonderful help." I told her.
"Oh, it's my pleasure dear. Let me know if there's anything else I can do." She told us before leaving.
"We will." We told her as she closed the door. We put the shopping bags down and Katherine pulled out a dress from one of the bags. Katherine then rushed over to the other side of the room pushing a woman against the wall.
"Oh, Kat, easy." The woman said holding her hands up.
"Do not sneak up on a vampire" Katherine told her letting her go.
"Don't attack a witch. It's good to see you girl." She said hugging Katherine. "Nicole, it's been a while. How've you been?" she asked hugging me.
"Same old, same old." I told her with a smile on my face. Lucy had put a spell on me so Bonnie couldn't see Katherine but I guess it had worn off over time.
"I'm glad you made it." Katherine told her smiling.
"You called, I came." She told us still smiling. Katherine had saved her life once and so now Lucy owed her a favor.
"Like you had a choice." Katherine told her.
"Don't get all boss lady on me. You know I love you." Lucy said pulling out a mask from one of the bags. "Now, where does one where this?" She asked holding it up to her face.
"To a masquerade ball. Tonight. You want to be our date?" I told Lucy smirking. Later Lucy and I were all trying on dresses and matching masks to them while Katherine was straightening her beautiful curly hair.
"What's with the hair?" Lucy finally asked her.
"I'm impersonating my dullest dishwater doppelgänger Elena. She has the worst taste." Katherine told her.
"Now be nice, Katherine. The two of you have the same taste in men after all." I reminded her while holding a black dress up to me behind her in the mirror. She shook her head to the dress option.
"As do you." She said smirking at me.
"Isn't it a risk pretending to be her in front of the entire town?" Lucy asked her holding up a different dress.
"I've gotten quite good at it actually and everyone's gonna be in masks. It's for some feed this, something charity. It's for a good cause Lucy." Katherine told her while shaking her head to her dress choice.
"Hum, okay. Well, have you actually seen the moonstone before? I always thought it was some made up legend." Lucy told her picking out another dress.
"I have seen it and I need you to help me get it back." She told the witch.
"Oh yeah? What are you gonna do with it?" Lucy asked her. Katherine and I shared a look in the mirror. "You want me to break the curse." She said looking between us.
"Let's just get it first. All I really need from you is backup. I can't imagine that Damon and Stefan are just gonna hand it over without putting up a fight." I told her picking up another dress for approval.
When we arrived at the ball we looked around before going our separate ways. They each word black dresses while I wore a tight red dress with a red and gold mask. Katherine and I walked together for a while just to run into Matt. She took a strawberry from a plate before we found him standing by a pillar.
"Elena? Nicole?" He asked looking us over.
"Matt? You look dashing." Katherine told him looking him over.
"I thought you said you weren't coming?" He asked her. Good that meant Elena wouldn't be here tonight.
"I couldn't miss it. You really are hot in a suit. I would love to just... Okay, here's the deal." She said and I looked around to make sure no one was listening in. We needed this to go smoothly tonight for our big plan to work. "Do you know what you have to do?" She asked compelling him to remember.
"I'm gonna get Tyler Lockwood really drunk. I'm going to start a fight with him and I'm gonna beat him until he snaps." He told her.
"And then?" She asked him.
"I won't stop until he kills me." He told her.
"God, you're hot. Now go away." She said dismissing him.
"Thank you." He said leaving. After that she and I went our separate ways to mingle with those who needed mingling with. I talked with people I'd known before I left just to catch up them before excusing myself to grab a small bite to eat.
I'd found Katherine and started talking with her about the plan after tonight. After this we would have to find him again, that wouldn't be a good reunion.
"You didn't tell me there was another witch here." Lucy said angrily to us.
"Didn't we?" I asked her grabbing some food off the table in front of me. I was starving and we'd eaten something before we came to the party.
"No, you didn't. No one is supposed to know I'm involved. This changes things." She told us.
"This changes nothing. You're here because you owe your dear friends a favor. You wouldn't want to lose our friendship now, would you?" Katherine warned her. She was silent for a moment before Jeremy walked up to us.
"Elena, Nicole." He removed his mask and looked at Lucy. "Hey sorry, could I talk to my sisters?" He asked her. She looked to us for a moment and Katherine nodded her off and she left us with him.
"What is it Jeremy?" I asked him.
"I have a message from Stefan." He told us looking at Katherine. She looked to him surprised.
"Oh?" She asked him.
"He and Damon want you to meet them at the edge of the lake by the woods. They brought the moonstone." he told us.
"And why are you their little messenger?" I asked getting annoyed that they made him do their dirty work.
"Because they know I'm not afraid of her." He said finally looking at me.
"Hmm, you Gilbert men, so courageous. How's John by the way? Were they able to sew his fingers back on?" She asked touching his tie. She looked at him and left me alone with him. He pulled out his phone and started to text someone but someone pulled his arm away.
"What the hell is going on?" Elena asked looking between the two of us. Jeremy looked at me suspiciously.
"If you tell me I wont tell Katherine. I don't even have my phone on me, Jer." I told him. While Katherine and I had gotten close over the last three years my family still came first.
Jeremy and Bonnie, after a lot of convincing, told us what they had planned.
"You guys are trying to kill her here?" Elena asked them. This came as no surprise to me.
"We saw an opportunity and we knew we had to take it." Jeremy told us.
"Okay, stop with the "we", are you guys crazy? You're gonna get yourselves killed." Elena told them.
"We know what we're doing, Elena." Bonnie told her.
"And how am I supposed to feel if one of you guys gets hurt because of me?" Elena asked them.
"It's not just you anymore, Elena. You aren't the only doppelgänger." I told her and she looked at me with a mixture of hurt and anger.
"She's messed with all of us, she has to be stopped." Jeremy told her.
"You wont be able to kill her, Jer. Do you think we didn't come here prepared for something like this? I asked him.
"What do you mean." Suddenly my back was in severe pain and I screamed falling into Jeremy's arms.
"Nicole!" I pulled myself up a little enough to sit on a nearby bench.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Elena asked me. Jeremy pulled his hand away from my back and it was covered in blood.
"You can't kill her without killing me." I told them as my arm exploded in pain and I screamed.
"Get them to stop! Now!" Elena screamed at Jeremy and he ran to them.
"Why would you let her do this to you?" Elena asked me and I looked at her.
"I'm the one who suggested it. So long as our witch could make sure you weren't going to get hurt from this, then I was game." I told her smiling.
"Why are you working for her?" Bonnie asked me.
"I'm not working FOR her, I'm working WITH her. I hunted her down and offered her a deal she couldn't refuse." I told them before screaming in pain from a cut that magically appeared on my hand.
"Bonnie, do something." Elena begged her.
"I can't break the spell, Elena. I'm sorry but I can try to take some of the pain away. Okay? Okay?" She asked looking between the two of us. She took my hand in her and says her spell. "Ascinda, mulaf, hinto, ascinda..." She continued trying to take my pain away as Jeremy ran back to us.
"Are you okay?" Jer asked me.
"Are they?" Elena asked him and he just looked at her in silence for a moment.
"They're stuck in there with her." He said the looked to Bonnie. "You were right; Katherine had a witch link Nicole to her." Jer told her.
"The girl I saw, the one inside! Stay with her, keep pressure on her shoulder!" Bonnie instructed as she got up and started to run off.
"Where are you going?" He asked her.
"There's another witch here, I'm gonna find her!" Bonnie said leaving the area. Jeremy took off his ring and tried to give it to me.
"No Jer." I told him pushing it away from me.
"Take it." He ordered.
"Jeremy, you know I have issues following orders. Don't start giving them." I told him smiling in pain.
"Nikky listen to me. You need this more than I do." He told me.
"No Jeremy. What I need is for you and Elena to be safe. Besides that ring wont work on me." I told him
"Why not?" He asked me.
"I'm a doppelgänger. Elena and I are supernatural from birth. That ring only protects normal humans." I told him.
"How do you know all this?" Elena asked me keeping pressure on my back as Jeremy did my shoulder.
"Katherine and I either found all this information somewhere or she learned it over 500 years of living." I told her.
"Why did you join up with her?" Jeremy asked me the question I know all of them would want to know.
"The Sun and the Moon curse. Once you learn the truth behind it, maybe you'll understand. I had to make sure what little family I had was safe." I told them.
"What about Jenna?" Elena asked me and I looked down.
"Katherine wanted to protect me. She knew that once you guys learned that she and I were working together you would make sure I couldn't do what I needed to do. We had our witch perform a spell before Mason and I arrived home but I guess it wore off." I told her. "Doing that to Jenna was something I never wanted to happen, but Katherine kept her word and made sure she was still alive by the end of it. There's something else. Something I've only told Katherine."
"What is it?" Jeremy asked me.
"Before Katherine and I came to Mystic Falls, I had to convince someone that I was interested in them and then convince them I was dead. The second part didn't work so well but the first part did. I spent so much time focusing on what I had to do I didn't notice I fell in love with him until it was too late."
"How was it to late?" Elena asked me.
"One the day I pretended to die I spent the night with him and now I'm pregnant." They were silent and I kept my head low until I heard someone run to us. Bonnie.
"I found the other witch I can heal you now." She told me and began her spell. When she was done I got up and began to walk away.
"Nikky wait." I turned to Elena and we continued walking for a while.
"Do you want a ride home?" She asked me and I smiled. It was a start.
"Sure." I told her as Stefan walked up to us.
"Elena. Nicole."
"We're okay, we're okay. Bonnie took away the pain and I think Nikky's healing." She told him.
"I know but I think you should definitely see a doctor anyway." He told me and I nodded to him.
"I heard about Katherine, is it true? Is she really gone?" I asked him.
"Yeah." He said and I nodded while moving away a bit. They needed time alone together.
"I was so worried about you." He told her walking up to her but she pushed him away.
"Stefan...I..." She started but she couldn't finish what she wanted to say to him.
"Katherine being gone doesn't change anything for you, does it?" He asked her.
"I want to be with you, Stefan. You know that but first, I need to wake up and know that the people that I love are safe. I need to feel safe. Do you understand?" She asked him, looking back at me for a moment. She understood why I had done what I did now.
"Yeah. Yeah, I- I understand." He told her. She started walking away and I followed her.
We were walking through the parking lot going to Elena's car as she also spoke on the phone to Jeremy.
"Yeah Jeremy, I've got my car. Tell Bonnie that whatever she did, Nikky's starting to feel better. Yeah, you can drive her home. I'm just gonna go straight to bed. Okay." She asked him. After she got her reply she hung up. Suddenly I felt someone put a cloth on over my mouth and nose and my world went dark.
A few months ago
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Katherine asked me.
"Yes, how am I going to convince him I'm not scamming him if I don't?" I asked her getting ready for my date.
"True but to stay the night again? It could be dangerous." She told me and I laughed.
"I've been dating him for nearly a year now, Katherine. After tomorrow we''ll be able to go back and finish what needs to be done. If I only have that long left then I want to make the most of it." I told her closing my purse with what I needed inside.
"Still, be careful." she told me.
"Yes mom." I walked out the door to the club to meet him. This was the same club we'd met in a year ago and the only place we'd meet at.
"Nikky." I turned and watched him walk up to me.
"Hey. Are you ready to go?" I asked him.
"Of course, you know me. I love making sure everything if perfect for you." he told me leaning down to kiss me gently.
"Then let's go." I told him and we walked away from the club to our restaurant. That was the last night I saw him.
