CHAPTER 11:

"What?"

"Elena," Isobel moves toward me, and I shake my head. "I know that you're afraid right now, but you need to listen to me."

I back away from her. "Ho-? Wh-?"

Isobel sighs as she begins to walk around the room.

"When your father and I had learned of the curse that we placed upon you, we knew that we had to keep you safe. So I went to the hospital and dropped you off with a nurse. Where you were adopted to humans."

"How is living with humans safer?" I ask.

"Because if you lived with us, then we'd constantly be trying to protect you. If you were with humans, the chances of you being found were far less than being raised by vampires,"

"It was the worst feeling in the world, Elena," Isobel says. "Giving up your child for adoption. However, I knew that I was doing the right thing in your interest, so I was able to feel peace after."

"Over the years, I learned more and more about what it mean for a Pureblood vampire, the Power that you would surely possess," she shakes her head in disbelief. "I had learned that there were covens of them, that were gathering their own for Power."

"I've spent the first sixteen years of your life, watching over you. I saw you with your parents, Miranda and Greyson. I saw how happy you were. I wished that I could've raised you. But it wasn't safe."

"And when I had heard that they were murdered, I went to check the scene. And I found that it was vampires who murdered them. But you were gone and put in Foster Care already, and I couldn't tell you even if I had wanted to. that was the last I'd heard of you."

"Until about three years ago. I came across Katherine. I couldn't believe the resemblance between the two of you. I had actually thought that she was you." Isobel laughs softly. "But she told me that she had no idea what I was talking about."

"She and I went to see Valerie, and we didn't get answers." Isobel says. "However, I heard that the Original Senate was rounding up Purebloods. I didn't know what to think. I was so worried about you, if you were going to be alive, or if you were already rounded up."

"And when they came to Katherine's the other night, I had spared my life by telling them that I would find you. I knew that you were alive when Katherine told me that she saw someone who looked like her named Elena."

"I found out that you needed a cure for a werewolf bite, so I told the Original Senate that. So I went to Val's and I told her to send you here to me."

"So, you have the cure?" I ask, that being the only thing that mattered in all of that.

"I do." she nods.

"Thank god." I sigh, the relief piling on top of me.

"For a price." she says, and I look at her in confusion.

"What?"

"Elena, there are many things that you still have yet to learn. And one of them is that you don't mess with fate." Isobel says somberly.

"What are you talking about?" I ask, getting frustrated.

"The Original Senate wants you." She says.

"I already knew that," I snap. "What does that have to do with the cure?"

"That's the price." she says softly. "I will give you the cure and spare your friends if you turn yourself over to the Original Senate."


"No," Stefan says.

"Elena, this is the only way to save your friends." Isobel says, regret in her dark eyes.

"Elena-" Caroline says, but I nod before she can finish.

"Deal." I say.

"Elena-"

"It's the only way to save Damon," I tell them. "And I won't let him die."

"Elena, you don't need to do this, we'll find another way," Stefan says.

"There is no other way." Isobel says. "The cure is for your friend to drink the blood of an Original, and they won't allow that if you don't turn yourself in."

Oh, my god.

"Well, I'm not changing my mind."

Isobel nods. "You're doing the right thing, Elena," she says.

That sets me off.

"The right thing?" I scoff. "You claim to be my birthmother, and you're telling me that the right thing is to send myself to my death to break some silly little Pureblood Curse?"

"Wait, what are you talking about?" Isobel shakes her head.

"They want to break the cu sânge pur curse." I tell her. "That's what they want me for,"

"Is that what you were told?" Isobel scoffs. "The cu sânge pur is not a curse. Well, not the one that the Original Senate want to break, anyway."

"Then what do they want with all of the Purebloods?" I ask, not understanding. If they don't want to break this curse, then what do they want with all of the Purebloods? Something tells me that it's not Power.

"Not all of them. Five of them." Isobel corrects.

"Five of them, five of what?" I ask.

"Five Original Purebloods." Isobel says. "Five Pureblood vampires directly descended from the Original Senate's bloodline."

"Aren't all of the vampires descended from the Original Senate?" I ask.

Isobel scoffs. "God, where did you get your information?" She snaps.

"I was kidknapped by a Coven of Purebloods," I tell her. "They told me that, and so did Katherine."

Isobel blinks. "So, they don't even know. Of course they don't know. They'd kill themselves before all of this. I'm just surprised that Katherine doesn't even know. No wonder she told you all of that, she thought she was saving her own skin,"

"Know what?" I ask, getting frustrated.

"Being a Pureblood Vampire doesn't mean you're a direct descendant of the Original Senate. It means that you were born to two vampires. However, being one of the Five, the very rare Purebloods, does mean that you were directly created biologically and naturally through the Original bloodline."

"What?"

"In their time, one of The Originals bore a child before their curse was activated, therefore passing it down. And that's how you're connected to this. Through that bloodline."

"Wait, so what does this all mean?"

"I don't know anymore, Elena," Isobel shakes her head. "I wish I did."

"Here's the cure," Isobel says as she pulls out a small bottle. Red liquid floats around in it.

"I will give it to your friends if you come with me." she says.

"Do we have a deal?" she asks, arching an eyebrow at me.

I nod.

"We do."

"Elena-" Stefan and Caroline say, and their stabbed with Vervain syringes, and I'm knocked unconscious.


"So, you have the girl," Rebekah's voice asked hopefully as Isobel drove with her daughter in the backseat of her SUV.

"I do." Isobel nodded.

"Where do you want her?" Isobel asked.

"Bring her to Mystic Falls." Rebekah said. "We have the other four waiting."

"But that's-"

"That's where her friends are who will try to stop us, I know." She sighs. "However, we will kill anyone and everyone who will get in our way." Her cold voice dripped through the phone.

"I'm on my way," Isobel said. She hung up with the blonde, and pressed down on the accelerator and sped off into the night.


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