The sun sprung up in the sky once again and this morning seemed different. I don't know why, but I felt a tingling sensation as if something was wrong. I felt it the whole night and couldn't catch a wink of sleep much without feeling as if I were in pain. After taking another shower and dressing up, I decided this time to let my hair out seeing it was still in its usual waves. As I left my room again and passed Elena's room I came to a halt.
Something isn't right.
I know something isn't right.
I don't know why but it's like I had a sixth sense. That sense is to detect danger or when something almost bad is about to happen. I've had that even before I became a vampire, which is a blessing but still strange to say the least.
I walked quietly near Elena's door and opened it up slowly. "Elena? Elena?" I called out softly. I soon let the door wide open to see Elena wasn't in her room. But that's not what worried me. What worried me was that Elena's bed didn't look as if it were slept in at all. Feeling concern, I went downstairs to go out to the front porch outside.
Elena's car wasn't there.
"Shit." I muttered to myself knowing something horribly wrong was happening.
I just couldn't figure out what.
After a brief moment of pacing I calmed down and thought maybe I was over reacting a bit. Maybe she's at school or hanging out with her friend or...
That's when it sunk in.
The Boarding house.
Maybe she went there to say goodbye to Stefan. Why it was a long goodbye, I don't know, but I'll figure it out. I soon closed the door behind me and sped off to the location, hoping my theory was right.
Once I got to the Boarding house, I didn't even waste time barging in as if I owned the place.
"Hello? Is anyone here? Elena!" I called out. Soon I walked into the living room and saw Stefan was still here. He didn't look like he had much sleep either, and seemed worried.
"Stefan, you're still here. I thought you left?" I started out. He didn't respond so I caught to the chase. "Have you um, seen Elena?" I asked him. He looked over at me and sighed with a brink of guilt in his eyes. "Angie.." He started out. "Stefan. Tell me. Please tell me you know where she is." I nearly pleaded, thinking of all the horrible possibilities that could have happened to her.
Yep, I'm a pessimistic type person mentally.
"She was here, but then she left." Stefan told me, causing me to be a bit confused on her whereabouts. ""She was her, then she left?" What the fuck, Stefan? I don't need riddles, I need to find my sister! What happened?" I asked him. "Well, you see... last night we.. uh. We slept together.." Stefan started out, but I cut him off stating, "Skip ahead, please!"
"Anyway, when I left the room, she found a picture I had of Katherine and left." Stefan eventually admitted. I raised my eyebrow slightly. "So? You had a picture of you sire slash ex-girlfriend? It couldn't have been that bad." I stated.
This is why I fail in the relationship department. Of course this is bad! If your boyfriend is still carrying around a photo or anything that belonged to his ex-girlfriend or is of her, then that relationship will go nowhere but downhill unless he gets rid of them.
"It is. Here's the picture." He told me handing over the picture to me. I took it and glanced down over at it. I took a closer to look to make sure my eyes weren't pulling a trick on me.
Oh. My. God.
I stared at the photo in shock and a part of me wished it was photoshopped, but the look on Stefan's face proved to me he was dead serious about this photo. I couldn't believe it. Soon wheels started to secretly turn in my head.
"So, just out of curiosity... what did she look like?" I suddenly asked him.
"Nothing special. Brown hair, brown eyes, fair skin, rouge cheeks, but enough about her."
"You must really hate her." I stated.
"Of course I do. Have you not been paying attention to my story, darling?" He rhetorically asked me. I rolled my eyes slightly and noticed he was still giving me an odd look. "Why do you keep looking at me like that?" I asked, getting fed up with it. "Excuse me, but you take a liking of her appearance quite nicely. I swear, if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were her from second glance." He told me.
"What about first?" I tested him. He smirked and said, "I'd admire your beauty first, before noticing you resemble my enemy in the slightest."
That's when reality finally sat in.
Katherine.
Katerina.
Elena.
Doppelganger.
Katerina IS Katherine.
And Elena IS her doppelgänger.
Now my head was starting to spin.
"So... it's a picture of Elena?" I started out in denial. "No, Angie. That's a picture of Katherine. Katherine Pierce." Stefan informed me. "What? H-How? Why does she look like Elena?" I asked in shock.
Apparently, I'm the only one that knew the history between Elena and Katherine at the moment. I figured right now would be the best time to play dumb. After all, the less people that know that Elena and I are apart of the Petrova bloodline the better.
"I don't know. But they do...look alike." Stefan stated.
"Well no shit! They could be bloody twins dammit! I need to go find her." I stated about to walk off.
"She's with Damon." Stefan told me. I automatically paused and turned to look at Stefan stunned. "Damon? She's with Damon? The Damon? The Damon whom we both hate?" I asked him cautiously. He nodded. "I have no idea where he took her." He told me. I groaned out loud and soon decided, "Okay, this is fine. I have an idea. Do you have something that belongs to Elena?" "I, uh, I have her necklace." Stefan told me, holding up her necklace he had given to her before.
"Great." I said before taking it from him. I made sure I held on to the chains to keep me away from the vervain. "Where are you going?" Stefan asked me curious. "I have a witch to consult with." I stated.
"Bonnie?" He asked out.
"You know it." I smirked.
"Angie.." He sighed.
"What? She already knows what I am. I told her a while back. Besides she trusts me. I did sorta save her life." I told him. "I know, but as you left to deal with Damon, Bonnie was nearly bleeding to death. I saved her before she faded away. Elena told her about everything." Stefan told me. I soon remembranced that day. "Yeah, I told her what I really was earlier that day so.. she probably pretended as if she didn't know." I told him, "Anyway, she's a witch so... she can maybe help us."
"There's no other choice is there?" He rhetorically asked me.
"It's either my way or the highway." I grinned and shrugged before taking off, with Stefan following behind me.
In near seconds, we made it to the school yard. We walked around for a bit. I noticed the glance like stares I was getting from students and gave them a look to turn away. Just because I graduated High school doesn't mean it should be weird of me to visit a few times. It was lunch hours and we were lucky enough to find Bonnie sitting around by herself minding her own business.
"Bonnie." Stefan and I both called out.
"Angie.. Stefan.." Bonnie said as she looked between us. She smiled a bit when she saw me but it almost faltered when she looked over at Stefan.
"Hey." Stefan started out.
"Hi." Bonnie replied.
Well, this is awkward.
"You know, Bon, we haven't seen much of you lately. How are you doing with... um.. everything?" I asked her mutually curious. "I'm fine. It's all fine." Bonnie told us. "Good. Yeah." Stefan said. "Are you back in school?" Bonnie asked Stefan. "No. Actually I came here to find you. You see, I was hoping you could help us with something." Stefan told her.
"A spell." I stated.
Bonnie sighed as she looked between us. "Stefan, look, I know Elena's okay with all of this, and I appreciate what you did to help me. Angie, I trust you even though you're... you know and I know you'd never hurt me or anyone for that matter. But I'm not really ready to dive into it with you just yet." She informed us both of her boundaries.
"I understand that. But I need your help. It's Elena. She's with Damon. I have Elena's necklace. I was just hoping you could use this to make some sort of a connection. I just need to know that she's okay." Stefan informed her of our current problem. "How do you know I can do this?" Bonnie asked in doubt.
"Because, you're a Bennett witch. Do I really need to say more?" I stated.
"I'm still new at this." Bonnie sighed. "It's okay. Give it a shot." Stefan told her. "Okay. All right." Bonnie soon agreed. She took the necklace and closed her eyes, while clutching the necklace between her plums to try and find something, some lead from Elena.
Out of nowhere, I was hearing bells ring. The kind of bells you'd hear ring every time someone entered a store or bar. That was odd?
"There's nothing. Nothing's happening. Usually there's an image or... tell me if anyone's looking." Bonnie told Stefan. "Okay." Stefan said, looking around briefly of anyone unwanted attention near us.
Bree's Bar
Where did that image come from? I closed my eyes and shook my head a bit thinking I was daydreaming.
"Something's wrong." Bonnie started out.
"With Elena?" Stefan and I both asked.
"With me. There's something wrong with me. I have to go. I'm sorry, Stefan and Ang. I can't help you." Bonnie said in a hurry, trying to walk away. I secretly followed her all the way to the side of the school before speeding off with her for a moment to the back. "Sorry about that. Bon, what's going on?" I asked her.
"N-nothing. I'm fine." Bonnie told me.
"Stop lying. Literally 2 minutes ago, you just said something's wrong with you. Spit it out, Bennett." I demanded. "You wouldn't understand." Bonnie told me. I scoffed slightly. "Try me." I challenged her.
"My powers aren't working." She admitted.
I raised my eyebrow a bit. "How..how is that even possible?" I asked her, confused.
"I-I don't know. I just... They're not working properly. It's like I lost them." Bonnie tried to explain to me. "Bonnie, there's no possible way you could have lost your powers. I think there's something blocking them for you to have access. I think you should talk to Grams. No But's, just do it. This is serious, Bon." I told her. She sighed slightly, but nodded anyway. "Now if you excuse me, there's an abducted child named Elena, who I need to find." I told her, before speeding away.
From afar I was pretty sure I heard a light thank you from a distance.
Hours passed as I stayed over at the Boarding house with Stefan. He called Elena repeatedly, but got no response. The more time passed and the less information we knew about Elena's whereabouts or if she was even alive for that matter, was causing me to feel stressed and almost half scared to death.
Which to be honest, I don't believe I can get any deader than I am.
As this caused me to have a major headache and feeling a slight pit in my stomach. As more time passed, the pit grew worse causing me to lie on the couch all day on my stomach. Here and there I'd groan or moan a bit in pain as if I were getting struck by needles.
I, for one, was never a big fan of needles as a kid, so you can only imagine how discomforting it felt to relive it every few minutes of every hour.
Soon Stefan got a hold of Elena and chatted with her briefly. This caused me to become cautious and quickly grab the phone away from Stefan.
"And I'm suppose to believe that?" Elena asked out, supper pissed and heated.
Well, guess what sis? I'm heated too...
"Elena? Listen here and listen good, where the fuck are you?!" I started out pissed.
I'm done playing the nice sister. Elena screwed me over big time today!
"Angie? Angie, I can explain.." Elena started out. "No shit! Do you have any idea what you've put me through this whole day? You're lucky I didn't send out a fucking search party on you! You nearly gave Jenna and I a heart attack! And everyone at school are asking me questions of where the hell you are and I'm looking like a damn idiot not knowing the answer. Are you trying to give this town another reason why I shouldn't be your legal guardian?!" I ranted out.
"No. Angie, I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I'm sorry." Elena told me, but for some reason I couldn't hear her much over my heated rage I needed to get out of my system.
"Elena, I have a major headache right now. If you don't bring your ass back in Mystic Falls before midnight, so help be god, grounding you and taking away your car and cell phone would be too kind!" I stated firmly.
Elena was silent not knowing what to say over the phone.
"Are you okay?" I asked out, starting to calm down.
"I'm fine. I-I promise I'm okay." Elena informed me, obviously effected by my words earlier.
"Good. Call me when you get back." I told her, before handing the phone over to Stefan, who was watching the scene unravel in front of him in concern.
"Elena?" He called out, but she had already hung up.
I walked over to the bourbon ready to pour myself a drink, but couldn't do it for some reason and sighed thinking over the whole thing. Stefan placed the phone down and looked over at me still with concerned. "Angie? Are you okay?" He asked me almost in a worried tone.
"I'm fine. Of course I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be hell much fine?!" I faked out with a fake obvious chuckle. Stefan shook his head slightly. "You can talk to me you know." He started out. "Why are everyone asking me questions? I'm fine! I've always been fine! Ever since last summer, everyone has been smothering me with questions! Elena, Jeremy, Jenna, now you! Fuck, the whole town talks about me 24/7! Why is it so damn hard to believe that I'm fine!?" I started out.
"Look, I'm not trying to smother you, in fact, I don't really know you as well as any other person, but I'm worried about you Angie. From what I've seen, you can go from a nice, calm, caring person to a heated, in raged, emotionless killer in seconds. I don't know if it's because you're a vampire, or just your personality trait, but your emotions tend to be all over the place. I just.. I just want to know if you're okay. That nothing's going on with you." Stefan told me.
"I'm fine." I gritted my teeth, curling my fists into a ball as if ready to hit something, but really it's helping me keep control.
Of all things, the last thing I wanted was to turn into him.
I'm NOT him!
I'll never be him.
I'd rather burn alive right now than to slowly turn into him.
I sighed and brushed a hand through my hair as I took a sit down on the couch. Thinking it over for a brief moment, Stefan had a point.
Maybe I do need help with my emotions.
The problem was, who would help me and what was happening to me?
I've noticed weird things have been happening to me that are just non vampire related.
The more I notice these things, the stranger it gets and the more concern I get.
And the scare part is, I'm fine. I'm perfectly fine. I'm feeding right, I'm active, I was physically okay.
So what's going on?
Why am I acting as if I'm slowly losing my mind?
As if my humanity is trying to drift away slowly without me even realizing it?
After an hour passed at the Boarding house, I decided to leave and go back home in hope of finding Elena there.
No car at the driveway, no Elena.
Once I got in I got bombarded with questions from Jenna if I've seen Elena. Her guess was as good as mine, since I had no clue where she was right now, so all we could do was wait.
Another hour passed and Elena walked in. Jenna and I quickly arose from the sitting area and quickly approached her.
"I don't set a lot of rules, Elena. Not with you. I trust you to tell me the truth. Where were you? Why are you lying to me about it? I thought we were closer than that." Jenna started out.
"Now is not the time you want to talk to me about lies.." Elena grumbled out.
Now I'm really starting to get tired of her little attitude.
"Don't do that. Don't turn this back on me. I didn't do anything!" Jenna stated.
"Okay, question- Are Angie and I adopted? I trust you to tell me the truth too, Jenna. How could you not tell us? I thought we were closer than that." Elena started out. My eyes widened slightly.
Where the hell did she go?
Jenna was shocked as well, trying to figure this all out. "Elena..." I started out. "No, Angie. She lied to me. She lied to both of us. We're adopted." Elena started out getting frustrated by the whole thing.
"I know." I stated.
Now both eyes were turned on me.
"What?" They both asked, while the other was shocked, the other felt betrayed.
"I know, we're adopted Elena. Look this isn't all Jenna's fault, you know. Mom and Dad.. they both asked us not to tell you. Yet." I tried to explain. Tears started forming in her eyes. "You knew. You knew all along and didn't tell me? I thought I could trust you. Turns out even my own family are keeping lies from me." Elena started out, feeling as if her world was crumbling.
"Elena.." I sighed. "I don't want to hear it!" Elena yelled out, before running upstairs to her room and slamming the door shut. I quickly walked upstairs to avoid the upcoming 20 questions conversation with my aunt and went to my room, sliding down to the floor. I curled up into a ball feeling almost empty inside.
Yep, she officially hates me now.
I sighed, while shaking my head a bit.
Could this day get any worse?
Actually it can.
I got a quick text from Bonnie, I never knew she sent me a few hours back.
'I know where the tomb that Damon wants to open is. It's at the Fell Church. If Damon opens it, the vampires will be released. Who knows what would happen if they're out.' - Bonnie.
I sighed groaning out a bit.
I knew deep down Damon hasn't gotten over his obsession of freeing Katherine and that he might succeed. It was at that point I had to decide.
Either don't open the tomb, that way Damon doesn't get what he wants and the town stays safe.
Or..
Open the tomb so Damon and Katherine can reunite and be together and finally leave Mystic Falls forever.
Either way, the town would be a lot safer and better off with both options.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the new chapter. I'll explain later on or in the next chapter. Sorry if there's any mistakes. I was rushed and had to help cook today (don't ask). Anyway, see you on the next chapter. I'll look over to see if I missed anything or not. And don't worry, Angie will go and investigate the whole 'Vampire hunter teacher thing' with Alaric soon. Untill then... bye!