Chapter 8

Xena's POV

"Oh, my God," I murmured.

"What?" David asked, from the door.

"She's related to me. SHE'S FLIPPIN' RELATED TO ME!" I screeched.

"Looks just like me, doesn't she?" Katerina smirked.

I opened and closed my mouth, like a fish gasping for air.

"I killed her," were the first words that fell from my mouth.

"No, I'm sure the Salvatores wouldn't let her die," Katerina looked like she was going to fall over from laughter.

"There is no way they could find her fast enough," David called.

"I wouldn't be so sure. The Salvatores are hard to kill and the people they love are even harder," Katerina sneered, "Trust me, she's completely fine."

"Xena," David called, "This doesn't change anything. I still want to destroy them. All of them. And if she gets in the way, so be it."

I couldn't think, couldn't breathe. Elena Gilbert, the girl who I so happily tried to kill, was my many greats-granddaughter?

"Oh, and another thing. She's a Petrova doppelganger," Katerina laughed.

Doppelganger? Where had I heard that before?

-FLASHBACK-

"ALEXANDRIA!" screeched Madame de la Roche, my newest, most horrid, "mother".

I huddled deeper into the pulpit, fervently praying for her to go away.

"Where ARE you?" she bellowed.

"Te rog lui Dumnezeu, ajuta-ma," I prayed in Romanian, like I was taught. I did not wish to speak the French they forced on me.

The large woman stormed into the church, "Dirty Romanian brat!"

"Vă rog," I prayed one last time, before turning to face the large woman looming above me.

"Bonjour, Madame de la Roche," I cowered.

"She is of no use to us," A voice said. A man's voice. British, yes.

"What? Why?" Madame de la Roche whirled, skirts whipping out like butterfly wings.

"The brat is obviously not a Petrova doppelganger. Can't you see, woman? She favors her father, green eyes, and pale face. Does she look ANYTHING LIKE KATERINA? NO! SO FIND THE DOPPELGANGER!" The man stepped into the light; tall, blonde, and very, very angry.

"Yes, of course, Klaus," Madame de la Roche murmured, I had never seen her so submissive.

The man leaned down near me, "Your mummy has been very, very bad."

-END FLASHBACK-

"She's your doppelganger? The one they've been looking for?" I shot up, "This is bad. This is so very bad-"

"Why? What's wrong?" David called from the door.

"David, we killed what the Originals want. And we ended the Petrova family line. They're going to kill us!"

"What are the Originals?" he asked.

"The first and oldest family of vampires. To lift the Sun and Moon Curse, Klaus has to drink the blood of the otherwise human doppelganger. We killed her. She's dead; Klaus will have to wait 500 years for the next one. Thing is, Elena's the last member of the Petrova line left. Now that she's gone, Klaus will come after us. Oh, god, we're dead. We are so so dead-"

"What's the Sun and Moon Curse? I'm confused!" David questioned.

I went to him and placed my hand on the side of his face.

"David, sweetheart, you thought this was just a lot for revenge, just a way to get to Stefan, but you are so wrong. This goes deeper than we could ever imagine. And I am so sorry because there's another vampire in the room and it isn't me, you, or Katherine."

TRANSLATIONS:

Te rog lui Dumnezeu, ajuta-ma- Please God, help me

Vă rog- Please