Thanks for the reviews guys! I'm so excited to be at 200! This chapter is in Emily's point of view again, and it also addresses what the originals have been doing. (Someone asked) I hope you enjoy it!
I woke up on the first day of spring break with my brother's feet in my face.
"Daniel!"
"What?" He asked groggily.
"It's already almost lunch time." I pointed to the clock.
"I fell asleep in here?" He asked, still tired.
"Yeah. Now get up. We need to eat and get dressed." I told him.
"Ok, ok." He stood up. "I'm up."
"Good. Now bring me breakfast?" I asked.
"No!" He responded.
"It was worth a shot." I sighed as I got up.
We went downstairs to find mom and dad in the living room.
"Good morning." They said in sync.
"Good morning." Daniel and I replied.
"If you guys want some food, there's fruit salad in the fridge." Mom told us.
"Thanks." I smiled.
We walked into the kitchen and got ourselves fruit salad.
After a silent breakfast, or maybe lunch, I went upstairs to get ready.
By the time I was showered, dressed, and had my make-up on, mom and dad were leaving.
"Bye." I called out.
"Bye kids." They called back.
"Bye." Daniel shouted.
Once they were gone Daniel and I slumped into the couch.
After a couple minutes I started pacing.
"When are they going to be here?" I asked. "I need to know what's down there! I mean mom and dad have been hiding it for sixteen years. It must be super important."
Just then, the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." I told Daniel.
I answered it, and there was Olivia, Nate, and Rachel.
I showed them to the living room.
"So what's so important?" Rachel asked.
"We will explain when everyone else gets here." Daniel told her.
Then Carissa and Blair walked in through the back door.
"Hi guys." Blair greeted us.
"Hey." Carissa added.
We all greeted them, and then there was another knock on the door.
I answered it to Chloe, Johnny, Dylan, and Lindsey.
Then I realized that Chloe and Nate were in the same room. I felt bad, but there wasn't exactly anything I could do about it now.
"So why are we all here?" Lindsey asked.
"Well yesterday, I went to get a book-" Daniel started.
"You were reading?" Nate gasped.
"Very funny." He paused. "Anyway, I went to my parents library, and found something interesting."
"I think we better show you." I added, before walking to the master bedroom with everyone on my heels.
We got into the library and Daniel told everyone to keep in mind that Uncle Stefan built this house. He then slid the bookshelf to the side and everyone gasped.
"Where does it lead?" Chloe asked.
"We aren't sure." Daniel answered.
"We decided to wait for you guys, because if Uncle Stefan was involved, then it's possible your parents were too, and they've been keeping this a secret for sixteen years." I explained.
"What if it's no big deal, and that's why they haven't told you?" Dylan asked.
"Well we might as well go down since we're here." Carissa said.
Daniel led, and I was right behind him.
With every step I wondered what was at the bottom.
Eventually we did get to the bottom where we found two doors.
"Which one do we open?" Blair asked.
"I vote the door on the right." Lindsey commented.
"Why?" Johnny asked.
"Because the right is right choice." She explained.
"Ok. Open the door on the right, Danny." I told him.
Daniel walked to the door on right and opened it. He walked in, and flipped on a switch to turn on the light. We all walked inside.
Inside was a teenage girl's bedroom.
"What the hell is this?" Daniel asked as he peered around the room.
We all looked around the room.
I looked at the dresser, where there were pictures. They were all pictures of younger versions of adults I knew. One was my mom, Uncle Stefan, and Uncle Damon in front of the school. Another was also in front of the school, and was my mom, Aunt Caroline, and a girl who I didn't recognize. There was another that was my mom, Uncle Jeremy,and two older people I didn't know in front of a house. There was also one with mom, Uncle Matt, and Uncle Tyler.
"Guys, look at this. These are all pictures of my mom and other people." I called out.
Everyone came over and looked.
"That's my mom." Chloe and Johnny said.
"And my dad." Blair, Carissa, Dylan, and Lindsey said.
After looking at the pictures we kept looking.
There was also a big 'E' above the bed, so we figured that the room was for my mom, Elena. But why did she have an underground bedroom?
Then Daniel called us over to the bookshelf.
"Guys! Look at this."
We all walked over. On the bookshelf there were many different books. Each had a year on them and either the letter 'E' or 'S'. The ones that had an 'S' dated all the way back to 1863. The ones that had an 'E' dated back to 2007.
"Which one should we read?" Daniel asked.
"Read the one with the E on it from 2009." I told him.
"Why?" He asked.
"Because I'm pretty sure 'E' stands for Elena, and 2009 is my favorite number." I explained.
"2009?" Rachel asked. "Why?"
I just shrugged.
Daniel opened it and told us it was our mom's diary.
"What?" I grabbed it out of his hand.
I flipped to a random page and read aloud.
"September seventh, 2009. Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said, "I'm fine, thanks" at least thirty-seven times, and I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks, "How are you?" they really don't want an answer. I'm sitting in the grave yard now, by mom and dad's grave. There's this crow. It's very strange."
"What was she talking about?" Chloe asked.
"I'm guessing her parents dying." I replied and then kept reading. "Later on September seventh, 2009. Dear Diary, I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought I could smile, nod my way through it. Pretend like it would all be ok. I wanted it to be a day without the pain, but it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you. They follow you. You can't escape them, as much as you want to. All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in, because you need it. I need it. I'm looking out the window now, and the new guy from school is standing there. Stefan. I will go greet him."
"Wow. Aunt Elena went through a lot." Blair commented.
"Well I guess we know how Stefan and her met now." Rachel stated.
"But that's all we really found." Lindsey added.
"Yeah, not really anything important." Dylan concluded.
I got what they were saying. We didn't find much. However, I had this gut feeling that said there was still something to be found.
I gave Daniel a look that said I wanted to keep looking.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Daniel started. "How about you guys go upstairs, watch a movie, whatever, but Emily and I are going to stay down here for a little while."
They all mumbled "ok" or "sure" or "that works" and then went upstairs.
Then it was just Daniel and I.
"I feel like there's something important in these diaries." I told him.
"Me too." He agreed.
We then split up the diaries so we could look through them faster.
I started reading, and got lucky. The first thing I read was a big deal.
"Daniel, look at this." I then read aloud. "Dear Diary, Sometimes I wonder how I got myself into this mess. I think back to the days where I didn't know Stefan and Damon. I think back to when I wasn't falling for my boyfriend's brother. I love Stefan and all, but whenever I go around Damon it's like he's compelling me to become speechless, which obviously isn't happening, since I wear and eat vervain."
"What?" Daniel asked. "Mom was in love with Uncle Stefan and Uncle Damon? And what is vervain?"
"That's what it sounds like." I agreed. "And I have no clue what vervain is."
"That is really shocking." He spoke.
"Yeah, but I feel like there's something else."
"Then lets keep looking." He stated.
Daniel found the next important thing.
"Ems, look. The ones that have an S are Uncle Stefan's."
"Uncle Stefan keeps a diary?" I laughed.
"More like 166 diaries."
"What?" I asked. "That makes no sense. There's one for each year."
He started to explain. "Yeah it does. When you subtract 1863 from-"
"That's not what I meant you idiot. I wasn't insulting your math skills. I meant that it makes no sense because Uncle Stefan was not alive in the year 1863." I replied.
"Just listen to this." Daniel told me, so I did. "Whenever I'm near her I want to spend every minute focusing on her, because I love her."
"Who is he talking about?" I asked.
"Mom, but just listen." He answered. "But sometimes, it seems like all I can do is focus on the big blue vain in her neck. I hate what I am, and if it weren't the reason I'm able to know Elena, I would hate it even more. I hate Katherine for turning me and Damon, for making me what I am. However, if it weren't for her, I wouldn't know Elena, because without her, I would've died in 1864."
"Ok, so Uncle Stefan was in love with Mom, he hates who he is and Aunt Katherine, but likes her because she is the reason he didn't die in 1864." I concluded.
"Pretty much." Daniel nodded.
"That makes no sense. At all." I stated. "Say he started keeping the journals at the same age we are now. That would make him 183 years old! No one lives that long."
"Ems?" He asked.
"Yeah?" I replied.
"What do you think of when I say 'All I can do is focus on the blue vein in your neck'?"
"It makes you seem like your crazy." I told him, and he just stared at me. That wasn't the answer he wanted. "Ok, fine. It makes you seem like a vampire." The words came out before I could process them.
I got another stare from Daniel. "Uncle Stefan? A vampire? That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. He eats normal food, walks around in the sun, and I haven't ever heard about an attack in Mystic Falls."
Another stare was all I got. "Sara." I whispered.
"Ok, but that was just recently. What about the rest of our lives?" I questioned him.
"I don't know Ems. It was just an idea. Lets keep looking." He suggested.
We kept looking and I started to scare myself with what I found next.
"Danny?"
"Yeah?"
"This is freaky. It can't be true." I stated, trying to reassure myself.
"Read it." He urged me.
"June eighth 2013. Dear Diary, This is crazy. Why did I agree to this? I have agreed to take care of a child that is Katherine's and Damon's. Klaus wants it to be safe, so someday another doppelganger can be born, but why does he trust me? This is completely crazy. I don't know how to raise a child. In nine months I'm going to be a mom. Damon is going to be a dad. This is absolutely crazy."
"How is that freaky?" He asked. "So what if Aunt Katherine and Uncle Damon have a kid? Actually that's really weird."
"That's not the freaky part yet, but it is really weird. What do you think happened to the child? I mean, mom was suppose to take care of it, but obviously that didn't happen. She is taking care of us." I told him.
"Wait. That doesn't make sense." Daniel stated.
"What?" I asked.
"Nine months after June is March. Our birthday is February. Nine months before February is May. So, mom would've already been a month pregnant. Why would she agree to another child?"
Suddenly the craziest idea came into my head.
"Daniel?" I gulped.
"What?" He asked.
"What if one of us is mom and dad's child, and one of us is Aunt Katherine's and Uncle Damon's?" I questioned.
He gave me a blank stare, trying to process what I had just said.
Finally he spoke. "Ems, we have the same birthday. That doesn't make sense."
I started to rant. "It makes #perfect sense Danny. When mom agreed to taking care of Aunt Katherine's and Uncle Damon's child-"
He cut me off. "Lets call him Bob."
"Ok. Whatever. When mom agreed to take care of Bob, she would've only been a month pregnant, so there's a chance she didn't know. Then in February, mom and dad's child-"
"Bobby." He supplied.
"In February Bobby would've been born, and then in March Bob would've been born. I mean, it's not like I remember the day I was born. For all I know, you could have been a month old at the time, or still be in Katherine's stomach."
"Ems, I can't even imagine that. I mean, we would be cousin's then. Not brother and sister. There's a chance I'm Aunt Katherine's and Uncle Damon's child? Not nephew? That is crazy."
"Danny?" I asked. "If one of us #isn't their child, then what happened to Bob?"
"Miscarriage?" He suggested.
I nodded. "And why did they want Mom to take care of the child? It seems like she planned on taking care of the child with Damon, because it says 'I'm going to be a mom. Damon is going to be a dad.' So what about our dad?"
"Well it said that Uncle Klaus wanted it to be safe so a doppelganger could be born, so that's why mom was going to take care of it. But what is a doppelganger?"
"It is someone that looks just like you." I explained.
"But why would Uncle Klaus care? And who did he want the baby to look like?" He asked and I shrugged.
"But it must have been a miscarriage, right?" I asked. "I mean we look a lot alike."
Then we looked into the mirror in the room and I started to scare myself again.
We both had mom or Aunt Katherine's mouth and nose. So that didn't help anything. We both had blue eyes, but that could be Uncle Damon or dad, so that didn't help. However, my hair was such a dark brown that it looked black, just like Uncle Damon's. Daniel's was a lighter brown, like dad's. My hair was curly, like Aunt Katherine's. Daniel's wasn't.
After going over each of these traits I stated, "Aunt Katherine is my mom. Uncle Damon is my dad. I'm Bob, not Bobby."
"That's not true." Daniel tried to comfort me. "We aren't cousins, Ems. That's just not reasonable. Ok? I've grown up depending on my sister, not my cousin."
"But Daniel, all the facts say so." I argued.
"How about you keep reading the journal entry?" He suggested. "Get your mind off this."
'Great.' I thought. I had completely forgotten about what had freaked me out. This day busy keeps getting better and better.
I picked up the diary and skipped to the next part.
"June ninth, 2013. Dear Diary, It's about six a.m. and Damon is missing. He should've been home hours ago. I guess Jeremy could tell that I needed a break because he set up movies, popcorn, and hot chocolate for us. We used to have a tradition like that before mom and dad died. It's hard to think about the past, but tonight I got to relive it. Jeremy pointed out that Matt is the only one of my friends that is living."
"Wait what?" Daniel stopped me.
"Yeah. Freaky. Now keep listening." I continued on then. "I realized he was right. Stefan, Damon, Caroline, and I are all vampires."
"I was right!" He exclaimed before realizing what that meant. "Wait. I was right. That's not good."
I kept reading. "And if you count people that aren't my friends you can go ahead and add Rebekah, Isobel, Elijah, and Abby to that list."
"Who's Elijah, Isobel, and Abby?" He asked.
I shrugged and went on. "Bonnie was a witch, and so was her mother before Damon turned her into a vampire."
"There's that word again. Turned. Uncle Stefan had written that Aunt Katherine had turned him and Uncle Damon. But it doesn't say that Aunt Katherine is a vampire." Daniel observed.
"Who do you think her mom was?" I asked.
"Abby maybe?" He suggested. "That is the only girl name I don't recognize as a vampire, because I know that mom and Aunt Katherine's real mom was Isobel."
I looked back at the diary. "Katherine and I are doppelgangers."
"Well of course they are, they're twins." Daniel stated. "So that doesn't make sense. And why is a doppelganger listed along with supernatural stuff?"
"I'm not sure. I'll keep reading. Tyler and Klaus are hybrids."
"What's a hybrid?" He asked. "Like I know it is half of one thing, and half of another, but what are the two things?"
"I'm not sure. Witch, vampire, doppelganger, and werewolf are the choices." I stated.
"Wait. Werewolf?" He questioned.
"Yeah. I'll keep reading. Tyler was a werewolf, before he got turned into a hybrid, but the only pure werewolf that I know who is alive, is Hayley."
"So werewolf is one half then." Daniel stated.
"Yeah, I guess." I spoke, and then kept reading. "Even my own little Jeremy was a vampire hunter. So Matt is the only human left. Even his own sister died as a vampire. So, so many have died. Vickie, Alaric, Isobel, Jenna, mom, dad, Fin, Kol, Bonnie, John, Bill, Jules, Mason, Sage, Rose, and so many more that I can not name them all. I feel bad for Matt, being the only human, but I envy him too. It's only everyday I wish I was human." I looked up. "That's the end of the entry."
"Ok. So not only are we possibly cousins, but every adult we know is supernatural. Except Uncle Matt of course."
"Sounds like it." I sighed.
"Should we keep looking through the diaries?" He asked.
"No, I can't take any more surprises." I told him.
"Ok. Do we tell all of our friends upstairs?" He questioned. "I mean Carissa's and Blair's dad is a vampire hunter. Chloe's and Johnny's dad is half werewolf, and their mom is a vampire."
I sighed. "I would say yes, but I think we should find out if it is true first. Besides, when we do tell them, I want to tell them if we are cousins or not."
"Ok. How do we figure out if it is true or not? If we tell mom or dad we came down here they will be very mad."
I thought about this and suddenly something clicked. "Elijah." I spoke.
"What about him? That's the guy we don't know."
"Except I #do know him. Or of him."
"What?" Daniel asked.
"I remember being at Chloe's once, and her dad, Uncle Klaus, was on the phone. He was saying 'Elijah, we will not come and visit you. For once Mystic Falls is calm. If you want to see your nephew come here yourself. Hayley has him anyways, not me. You should be calling her.' Then Aunt Caroline came in and took the phone. She wrote down Elijah's phone number and said she would give it to Hayley." I explained.
"Maybe he is just the person we need." Daniel exclaimed. "I mean, he doesn't know us, but he is a vampire so he can explain things to us. The only problem is we have no way of contacting him."
"But we do." I grinned.
"What? How?" Daniel asked.
"I remember every phone number I look at." I explained.
"You looked at the number Aunt Caroline wrote down." He grinned.
We then called the number that I remembered and put it on speaker.
"This is the Mikaelson residence. How can I help you?" The voice on the other end answered.
"Hello. We were wondering if we could speak to Elijah." I replied when Daniel didn't say anything.
"Mr. Mikaelson is unavailable at the moment. May I take a message?"
"Uh, no thank you. Could you just give us his address?" I asked.
"It depends. Who is this speaking?" The voice asked.
I figured that if I said Emily Hampton the lady would not tell me the address, so I lied.
"Elena Hampton." I told her.
"Mrs. Hampton, can you give me your maiden name?"
I didn't see why this mattered, but I told the lady Gilbert, and she gave me the address. He lived in Washington D.C.
Once I hung up Daniel asked me when we should go.
"Well it's about three hours from here." I pointed out. "It would have to be a day trip." I paused. "Do you think mom and dad would let us go?"
"Maybe. We could tell them that we haven't been in forever, since we used to go a lot when we were little." Daniel suggested.
"Ok. That works. So we drive there, find Elijah, get him to explain everything, then stop and get a souviner for mom and dad, and come home to expalin everything to our friends." I stated.
We had our plan so we put the diaries back in order.
We made sure everything was the way it was and then left the room.
"Daniel?"
"Yeah?"
"We never went into that door." I pointed to the door on the left.
"Then lets go in." He grinned.
We were about to go in when we heard the garage open.
We quickly ran up the steps, closed the bookshelf, and went into the living room.
Everyone was gone, but the TV was on so we sat down and pretended to watch it.
Elena's Point of View
The whole car ride home I was deep in thought.
Ever since Payton's thirteenth birthday he had been turning into a werewolf. He didn't kill anyone, so we figured it was because his real dad, Klaus, is a hybrid. I had known that for a long time. Tyler and Hayley, his parents, lied to him and said every guy werewolf changes on their thirteenth birthday, but girls have to kill someone, and that was why his sister, Sara hadn't turned yet.
However, now Sara would. Yesterday, she had been walking through the woods when someone came up and attacked her. She pushed them off a cliff, killing them, and then later on the walk someone else attacked her, injuring her.
It took us a while to get the whole story out of her. No fourteen year old girl wants to admit she killed somebody. When we finally did, it was late at night so we all went home. That had been yesterday.
Today when we all met, we met without Sara and Payton. Without any of our children. Sara and Payton were the only kids who knew about the supernatural world, and all they knew about was werewolves.
During our meeting today we figured that it was probably someone that was supernatural that attacked her. We figured that it had probably been vampires, but we couldn't figure out their motive, so we decided to just be on the lookout. We also decided that we should feed the kids vervain secretly, so Stefan and Rebekah were voted to go on a trip to get some. The trip should've been boring, but I was pretty sure they were in love, so they would probably enjoy it. For the past sixteen years the two of them pretended to be normal adults with jobs who were dating.
When Adam and I came back home we found Emily and Daniel on the couch. Daniel was watching the news and Emily was on the phone.
"It's fine." Emily said into the phone.
I used my vampire hearing to hear who she was talking to.
"So did you guys find anything?" Chloe's voice asked.
"No, not really." Emily told her.
"Ok. Well I have to go."
"Bye." Emily spoke.
"Bye." Chloe repeated.
Then Emily hung up the phone.
"So what have you guys been up to?" Adam asked.
"Watching TV." Daniel responded.
"You watch the news now?" I raised an eyebrow.
Daniel hesitated. "Yeah, I find it very interesting."
"Ok." I replied, pretty sure he was hiding something. Then I asked, "Who was on the phone Ems?"
"Chloe." She answered.
"What were you guys talking about?" I questioned.
She told me, "Not much" and I was pretty sure she was hiding something too.
"Well what would you kids like for dinner?" Adam asked.
"Pizza sounds good." Emily suggested.
"Ok. I'll order a pizza." I said, and then I did.
The delivery was fast, so soon we were all sitting down eating.
While we were eating Daniel asked if him and Emily could take a day trip tomorrow to the capital.
"Why do you want to go there?" I asked.
"Well we went there a lot when we were little, and we want to go again." Emily explained.
I gave Adam a look and he said we should let them go.
"I suppose you guys can go. I would say that I'll come with, but Tyler asked me to come over and help out around the house with Sara."
"Ok." Daniel replied.
"Thanks mom." Emily said.
"Just drive safe. Ok?" I asked.
"We know." They both sighed.
After dinner they both went upstairs and did whatever it is that normal teenagers do.
Adam and I relaxed and watched TV until I became tired, and went off to bed.
The next morning I woke up and walked out into the living room to find Adam on the couch watching TV.
"Should we make Emily and Daniel breakfast before they leave?" I suggested.
"They left a couple hours ago." Adam stated. "They seemed really excited to go."
"Oh." I sighed. "Well if they're gone I'm going to go get something to drink."
He got what I was saying, and nodded.
I went into the little library and slid the bookshelf to the side. I went down the stairs and opened the door on the left. I drank one blood bag, and then another. I told myself I needed to drink more often.
Then I left the room and almost went back upstairs, but decided against it. I decided to go into my old bedroom.
I grabbed my newest diary off the shelf, opened it up, and wrote.
March fifteenth, 2029
Dear Diary,
The other night Sara was attacked. Adam, the kids, and I were at dinner when Stefan and Damon came in and told me. We've concluded that the attack was a vampire, but haven't told the kids. Right when I was starting to think that Mystic Falls could be normal for once, someone gets attacked. But what was I thinking? Mystic Falls will never be normal.
Emily and Daniel asked if they could go to D.C. last night. I almost said no, because of the attack, but figured that D.C. was safe, it was just Mystic Falls. I still put some vervain in their drinks though. I had been saving it for a while now.
Sincerely,
Elena
I closed the journal and put it back on the shelf, but noticed something odd.
I had always switched the years 2013 and 2014 around so it would go 2011, 2012, 2014, 2013, 2015, 2016. That way I would know if anyone had touched them, because the person would put them in numerical order. However, at the moment it went 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Someone had touched them.
Then it all clicked. Emily not telling me what her and Chloe were talking about. Daniel watching the news. Them wanting to go to D.C. They had been down here. Emily had told Chloe something. Daniel had probably just turned on the first channel possible so we wouldn't catch them down here. And now they were going to D.C., where Elijah lived.
They must have found something and now they're looking for answers. If only the truth was that simple.
Ok so how was this chapter? So Emily and Daniel know what everybody is, but aren't quite sure who their parents are. What do you think is going to happen next? Will Elijah talk to them? What will Elena do? Will there be another attack like the one on Sara? Please give me your ideas! I would love to have 215 reviews before chapter 26. Also, on a different subject, I have a very important question for you guys. This story is going to be over soon. Probably within about ten chapters. Would you guys like to see a sequel? If so, what would you want it to be about? xoxo.