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Brea woke up when she heard a rattle from downstairs. She sat up and looked around but saw nothing, rubbing her eyes, she laid back down trying to go back to sleep. Just as she began to drift off, she heard a door slam and jolted upright. Confused as to what it could be, Brea stood up and opened the door to her room. As she stepped out, she saw Elena walk out as well. "Did you hear that?" Brea asked nervously. They'd been on edge since the kidnapping.

"Yeah," Elena answered. "Sounded like a door."

"Maybe Jeremy's up?" Brea asked.

"Maybe," Elena said and the two twins walked towards his room. As they were about to enter his room, they heard footsteps behind them. Brea and Elena both spun around with a gasp to see Ric standing there in his boxers with a bowl of ice cream.

"Ahhh! Elena my eyes," Brea yelled burying her face in Elena's hair.

"Elena, Brea. Ahem," Ric said awkwardly as he tried to cover up.

"We heard something," Elena answered trying to look anywhere but at their teacher. Brea lifted her head but kept her eyes covered with her hand.

"That was us," Jenna's voice said.

"Jenna?" Brea asked peeking through her hand shield.

"I'm sorry," Jenna said with a small smile.

"We didn't think anyone was up," Ric reasoned.

"But here you both are," Jenna laughed awkwardly. "And here we are."

"We were just…" Ric said unsure of what to say. "Chunky monkey?" Ric said offering the girls his ice cream.

"I'm not really hungry… at all," Elena said.

"I'm with her," Brea said, she removed her hands from her eyes and looked at the ground.

"Well… I'm naked. So I'm gonna go," Ric said making a quick getaway.

As soon as Ric left, Brea looked up at her aunt who was wearing Ric's shirt. Elena and Brea smiled at her before they started making their way back to their rooms. "I'm really, really sorry," Jenna said.

"It's ok Jenna," the girls said.

"Don't worry about it," Elena wore it off.

"I know he's been staying over a lot. Are you- are you sure it's ok?"

"Hell yeah," Brea laughed. "Jeremy and I have great plans for the two of you. We'll have a very, very attractive cousin," Brea smiled and Jenna's eyes widened.

Elena frowned at her sister amused, "yeah it's fine. Seems like things are good."

"They're extremely good," Jenna said beaming.

"Then we're extremely ok with it," Elena laughed.

"How did that child not wake up?" Brea asked looking at Jeremy's door, "I mean I pretty much screamed."

"He sleeps like the living dead," Jenna laughed before walking off.

"Night," Brea said to Elena. "I spent most of the day talking to Tyler about the whole accident at his house with Sarah, all whilst avoiding the werewolf topic, I'm exhausted."

"Night," Elena smiled and the twins left to their respective rooms.

There was a knock at the door as the girls were planning their ditch-school-shopping day. They needed a normal day for themselves. "Who's that?" Elena asked.

"I don't know, I didn't invite anyone over," Brea said confused as they walked to the door.

Elena opened the front door and the twins were greeted by the Salvatore brothers. "Hey," Stefan said. "Can we talk?"

"Why?" Elena asked.

"We went to see Katherine," Damon said and Brea's face dropped.

Elena looked at Brea quickly before saying, "come on in," and allowing them to walk through.

"So we tried to bargain with her for the moonstone," Damon explained.

"Let me guess, she wouldn't give it," Brea smirked.

"Your face looked just like hers when you said that," Damon smirked back and Brea glared. "But no, she wouldn't. The only way she said she'd give it is if we get Bonnie to break her out. Said she'll leave town with you and never come back."

"Me? No way," Brea said. "I'm not leaving."

"You don't believe her do you?" Elena asked.

"No, of course not. Which is why we didn't agree," Damon said with a smile at Brea. "We just want the moonstone."

"According to Rose's friend Slater, there's a way to destroy the spell that Klaus wants to break," Stefan said.

"No spell, no doppelgänger sacrifice. Ergo, you live," Damon smiled.

"How do you destroy it?" Brea asked and Elena nodded.

"By releasing it from the moonstone," Stefan explained.

"How do you guys even know this is going to work?" Elena asked.

"Cause we have a crafty witch on our side," Damon said.

"You discussed it with Bonnie," Elena realised annoyed.

"She agreed to do anything she could to help us," Stefan defended.

"It's Katherine who has the moonstone. She's not going to give it to you"

"We're going to get it from her."

"Well, what he means to say is that we will pry it from her cold, dead hand if we have to," Damon said.

"No. You. Won't," Brea said giving him a fake smile.

"Bonnie just needs to find a way to release the seal long enough for us to get in, get the moonstone and get out in time for her to return it," Stefan said.

"Wow. I mean, it sounds like you guys already have it all planned out," Elena said and Brea knew she was mad.

"Yep, we're awesome," Damon said not picking up on Elena's vibes.

"Except for one thing. I don't want you to do it."

"What are you talking about? Elena, we don't have a choice," Stefan asked confused.

"Oh come on Stefan!" Brea exclaimed. "Surely you know."

"What about Klaus?" Elena asked.

"We'll find him, but after we get the moonstone," Stefan responded.

"Is that before or after he kills everyone that I care about, including the two of you?" Elena asked before looking at Brea. "And apparently not you."

"Elena, if we can de-spell the moonstone, we can save your life."

"I know. Everybody keeps saying that," Elena said standing up, grabbing Brea's hand and pulling them out of the kitchen.

"Why are we at the Salvatore's?" Brea asked as Elena pulled up. "This isn't the shops."

"I just need to pick something up," Elena said.

"You're lying," Brea said getting out of the car. "What are we really doing?"

"I'm sorry," Elena said opening the door. "But I have to do it," she said cryptically.

"It's not nice to leave a girl naked so early in the morning," Rose said walking into the foyer as Elena shut the door.

"Whoa," Rose said when she saw the girls. "Sorry, I thought you were…"

"What is it with us and naked people today," Brea whispered to Elena as they looked away.

"I, uh, sorry, I," Elena stammered.

"There's no one else here," Rose said.

"Actually, we came to talk to you," Elena said.

"We did?" Brea asked wide-eyed.

"Then I should probably get dressed," Rose said walking off. After a few minutes, Rose came back. "So what is it you wanted to talk about?"

"I want to go see Slater," Elena said.

"It's a bad idea," Rose immediately said.

"No, it's not. From what Stefan told me, your friend Slater obviously have more information on Klaus. And we need to know more about Brea. You and Damon just gave up before you got it."

"Because somebody blew up a coffee shop with us in it," Rose said incredulously.

"I kind of agree with Rose here Lena. It's not a good idea," Brea said looking between the two.

"There's more to learn," Elena pushed. "We just have to find a way to learn it."

"Why are you coming to me with this?"

"Because you owe me. One word from me, and Damon and Stefan could have killed you for kidnapping us."

"Actually I'd say your sister owes me more than I owe you. Or is it because you know that they wouldn't want you doing this? And their moonstone caper gives you a chance to sneak away."

"We're having a disagreement, ok? They're willing to risk everyone that I love, and I'm not."

"They're just trying to protect you."

"And you've proven that you couldn't care less whether I'm protected or not," Elena snarked. "So we're back to you taking me to Slater."

"Elena!" Brea protested.

"It's just to get information Brea, we need to know."

Rose then came and sat down next to Elena on the couch and Brea stiffened. "What exactly do you hope to achieve by this?"

"How would you like to be able to walk during the daylight?" Elena asked and Brea's head shot around to look at her sister in shock.

"I've been a slave to shadows for 500 years. What do you think?"

"I think I know a witch who's willing to do whatever it takes to help if you're willing to make a deal." Rose looked at Brea and Brea gave her a nod. "Great, it's settled. I'll be in the car," Elena said getting up and leaving Brea and Rose in the same room.

Rose got up to follow but Brea said, "Rose," and Rose froze. "I… I'm sorry. I saw Katherine. I know what we did. To you and Trevor. I just want you to know that I'm really, really sorry. I just wanted to save my family. I know you understand that. But I am very sorry, for the part I played in Trevor's death and your exile."

Rose was frozen in place, unsure of what to say to Brea's honest words, "thank you," she whispered in shock. "Thank you," she said more definitely with a small smile before leaving. Brea smiled slightly before getting up and following Rose through the shadows to the car.

After an hours drive, they finally arrived at Slater's apartment Richmond. The drive had been silent the entire way. Elena parked the car in an underground carpark so Rose could get inside safely and they all made their way upstairs to Slater's door. Rose banged on the door, "Slater! Slater, it's Rose. Open up," half a second later Rose turned to the twins, "he's not home. Sorry."

"No," Elena said raising her hand. "We didn't come all the way out here for nothing." She then jerked her head at the door, signalling Rose to break in.

Rose sighed and shoved the door open, "after you," she said to the girls. Elena and Brea looked around and stepped into the apartment, followed by Rose. "Slater?" Rose called stepping further into the apartment. "I don't think he's going to be much help," Rose said. Elena and Brea exchanged confused looks before running over to Rose and gasping, as they found Slater dead on the floor.

"That just made things very tricky," Brea hummed as Rose moved forward to frag his body away.

Elena huffed and walked over to the computers, "looks like whoever blew up the coffee shop found him and killed him for his information," she said as she looked through papers.

Brea walked over to her sister as Rose said, "yeah probably to stop him from helping people like us. The guy was a vampire almanac. Knowing too much information just bit him in the ass." As she said that Brea giggled and Elena shot her a glare.

Rose walked over to the window and flung open the curtain, "what are you?" Elena asked in shock as Brea backed away, afraid Rose was about to burst into flames.

"Tempered glass," Rose answered with a smile and Brea relaxed. "UV rays can't penetrate. I used to just come here and watch the day."

"I'm sorry about Slater," Brea and Elena both said and they glared at each other.

"Copy cat," Brea mumbled taking a photo of Slater and a girl from Elena.

"Any luck?" Rose asked them changing the conversation.

"Um," Elena said bending in front of the computer. "It's password protected, I can't get in."

"Try 'vampfan'?" Brea suggested and Elena slowly turned her head around to look at Brea. Brea shrugged and nudged Elena away with her hip and tried it. "Didn't work," Brea said defeated.

"Shocker," Elena muttered and Brea scoffed with a smile.

"Try…" Brea started before Rose cut her off.

"No, this is fine. Let's just go." After she said that a door inside the apartment rattled and all three of them spun to face it.

"Go check it out," Brea said nudging Elena and Elena looked at Brea wide eyed.

Rose ignored that and said, "stay here," as she went to investigate. "Alice?" she said, clearly recognising the person inside the cupboard.

"Rose!" a voice called and out ran a girl who grabbed onto Rose crying. "He's dead," she cried and Rose looked the very definition of uncomfortable.

Elena was in the kitchen with Brea while Rose sat with Alice. Elena was pouring tea whilst brea was texting Matt.

M - But how can Jeremy be mad at you it makes no sense?

B - I know right! He called Elena the prettier twin he got what he deserved.

M - Well I mean…

B - You dated the girl. You're biased. Your opinion doesn't count.

M - So what did you do to make him insult you?

B - Excuse me Matthew I did absolutely nothing to that child.

M - I don't believe that for a second

B - Yeah… well… gotta go. I'll text you when I'm home. We can do dinner, work out a plan to win Jer back.

Brea looked up as Rose walked in. "She found him a few minutes before we did," she explained.

"How is she?" Elena asked.

"Overreacting. Big time."

"Her boyfriend just died," Elena exclaimed. "There's no such thing as overreacting."

"Thos tears are for her," Rose explained to the twins. "She didn't care about Slater. She was only dating him long enough to see if he'd turn her."

Elena then looked at Brea and walked out. "Oh no," Brea sighed.

"What?" Rose asked.

"Well now that she knows she's not heartbroken. My sister is going to pull that girl into this whole issue. Probably going to try to get the computer password. My sister is a quick one," Brea said as they watched Elena interact with Alice. After a minute Rose, who was listening in, tensed up angrily. "What?" Brea asked looking between Elena and Rose.

"She just told her I'd turn the girl if she got us into the computer!"

"What!" Brea asked standing up and walking over to Elena and Alice who were now at the computers.

"Someone's been here. The hard drive's completely wiped out," Alice said.

"Yeah, probably whoever killed him," Rose said.

Elena sighed and hung her head, before Alice spoke. "Lucky for you, Slater was paranoid. Everything's backed up on our remote server."

Rose leaned in to the twins, "you know that she's not going anywhere near my blood, right?" she hissed.

"I know," Elena said. "She doesn't."

Brea let out a small laugh, "you're evil," she whispered and Elena smirked.

"Kristen Stewart," Alice said as she hacked into the server. "God, was he obvious."

"These are all leads to vampires?" Elena asked looking at all the emails.

"Slater was obsessed, almost as much as me," Alice smiled.

"What about that one? Cody Webber," Rose pointed out. "We exchanged dozens of emails about Elijah."

"I could call him?" Alice suggested.

Elena handed Alice a phone. "Tell him that we're trying to send a message to Klaus."

"Huh?" Brea asked confused.

"The doppelgänger is alive, and she's ready to surrender."

"What?!" both Rose and Brea yelled.

"Oh my god. I knew I recognised you two," Alice beamed.

"Get him the message, please," Elena said as Brea stood there in shock. Elena then walked off and Brea ran after her.

"Hold up! Elena! What the bloody hell are you thinking?" Brea screamed as Rose entered behind her.

"What are you doing?" Rose asked.

"I'm getting Klaus' attention."

"What!" Brea yelled. "That's the last thing we should be doing! Have you lost your mind!"

"If Klaus knows that you're alive, he'll find you and he'll kill you," Rose said and Elena looked down. "Which is exactly what you wanted all along."

"What? Elena?" Brea asked tearing up.

"It's either me or my family. Brea, if I don't do this, he'll hurt Jeremy and Jenna and Alaric. We can't let that happen. I have to do this."

"So this whole charade was a suicide mission so that you could sacrifice yourself and save everyone else?" Rose asked.

Alice then walked into the kitchen, "Cody is on his way and he really wants to meet you. Both of you," she said looking at Brea.

"You're being weak," Brea snapped as Elena went to leave the room.

"I have to do it."

"No, you most certainly do not!" Brea snapped as Elena left the room. "Call him," Brea whispered to Rose.

"Sorry?" Rose asked confused.

"Call Damon, he can drag her back home and lock her in the cellar. Just call him. Please. Get him here."

Rose nodded and pulled out her phone. "Don't be angry with me. You need to get to Richmond immediately. Elena is on a suicide mission that neither Brenna nor I knew about. She's trying to get Klaus' attention," she spoke into the phone before hanging up. "He's on his way."

Brea was standing in the window looking out over Richmond, waiting for Damon to come and save her sister from her moment of madness. As she was staring she noticed a face appear in the window. It was Elijah's. Brea's eyes widened. But she wasn't afraid. She just kept staring. "Brea…" Elena said coming up to her but she stopped when she saw Elijah in the reflection of the window. Elena gasped in fear, spinning around quickly and Brea turned to look as well, but he wasn't there. "Was that?"

"Yeah," Brea said shocked. "That was…"

"Elijah," Elena breathed. Before they could start chatting, Brea stormed off, not interested in talking to her sister.

Brea was raging on the couch when she heard Elena gasp in shock, so she looked up to see Damon standing in front of her. "What are you doing here?" he asked her.

"What are you doing here?" she snapped back.

"Thank god you're here!" Brea sighed from the couch standing up as Rose entered the room.

"You two called him?" Elena asked hurt.

"I'm sorry, Elena," Rose reasoned.

"Of course we called him. You're being an idiot," Brea snapped.

Elena then turned to Rose angrily. "You said that you understood."

"She lied," Damon said.

"Damon Salvatore," Alice said running up to the four of them.

"Get rid of her," Damon said to Rose in irritation.

"No way," Alice said as Rose moved her out of the room.

"Come on. We're leaving," Damon said.

"No," Elena protested.

"Yes, Elena, we're leaving," Brea hissed.

"I said no."

"I said we're leaving," Damon said angrily.

"I'm not going with you."

"You do not get to make decisions anymore," Damon snapped.

"Hear, hear," Brea agreed as she stood next to Damon.

"When have I ever made a decision?" Elena snapped back. "You and Stefan do that for me. Now this, this is my decision."

"Who's going to save your life while you're out making decisions?"

"You're not listening to me, Damon. I don't want to be saved. Not if it means that Klaus is going to kill every single person that I love except for my sister."

"Elena please," Brea begged. "You have to fight. Please. For me, for Jeremy, for Jenna. Please."

"Get your ass out the door before I throw you over my shoulder and carry you out myself," Damon ordered. Elena did not budge so Damon grabbed her arm.

"No," Elena grunted as she fought against him. Elena then threw a punch at Damon and Brea's eyes widened, knowing he wouldn't like that. Elena's face then contorted in pain as he obviously squeezed her fist in warning.

"Serves you right," Brea snapped, but her words were ignored.

Damon leaned in towards Elena, so close she had to move her head backwards, "don't ever do that again," he breathed and Brea pursed her lips eyes flickering between the two of them. Damon then let go and walked off.

"Brea…" Elena started to say.

"Shut up Elena!" Brea snapped and stormed off.

"Time to go," Damon said walking out of the bedroom. "Alice is soundly sleeping and won't remember a moment of this horribly stupid day," he said to the three girls sitting on the couch.

"Would you stop it!" Elena snapped at Brea.

"Stop what!?"

"Glaring at me."

"You deserve it you suicidal…." Brea yelled as the front doors slammed open and three men walked through. All three girls stood up and Brea angled her body in front of Elena's.

"We're here to meet the doppelganger," one man said. "And Brenna," he said looking at Brea.

"Thank you for coming," Elena said pushing past Brea only to be stopped by Damon.

"I will break your arm," Damon growled.

"And I will slap you," Brea growled as well ripping Elena back to stand behind her again as Damon held his arm in front of her.

"There's nothing here for you," Damon smirked. Just as he said that, one of the vampires at the back groaned and fell to the ground and Elijah stood behind him.

Brea let out a relieved breath. "Elijah," she sighed as Elena gasped and tensed up behind her.

The two vampires then spun around to look at him. And Rose sped out of the room. "I killed you. You were dead," Damon said confused.

"Damon, shut up!" Brea hissed.

"Thank you Brenna," Elijah smiled before turning to Damon, "yes, for centuries now. Who are you?" Elijah then asked the remaining vampires.

"Who are you?" one of the vampires retorted back.

"I'm Elijah," Elijah smiled and the vampire's eyes widened and they shrunk back.

"We were going to bring her to you," the vampire exclaimed. "Both the doppelgänger and your sister," he said and Brea's eyes widened as Damon tightened his grip on her. "For Klaus. She's the doppelganger. He'd want to see them both. I don't know how the doppelgänger exists, but she does. Klaus will want to see her."

"Does anyone else know that you're here?"

"No."

"Well, then, you have been incredibly helpful. Although I do believe all those decades ago I made it clear that none of you and your little bounty hunters were to go anywhere near Brenna, yet here you are," he hissed before plunging his hand into the men's chests and ripping out their hearts. Elena and Brea gasped in shock and Brea buried her head in her sisters hair for the second time today. Brea looked up slightly to see Damon move in front of them ready to fight, but Elijah just smiled, looking at Brea. "My apologies on you having to witness that. I will see you soon," he said before disappearing as he ran off. Damon turned back to look at the girls, confused as to why Elijah didn't take them.

"Alright, time to go," Damon said dragging them out of the building.

"Hello?" Brea answered the phone as Tyler rang.

"Hey," he said shakily. "You home?"

"Not at the moment, what's up? You sound upset?"

"Had a rough day. Figured you might of as well, heard you weren't at school."

"Heard? You ditched as well?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I'm probably an hour away from being home. If you want you can come and hang out? Stay the night? We can steal Jenna's ice cream like we did last week and watch Bambi?"

"Yeah, we're not watching Bambi."

"Why not it's a brilliant movie!"

"Brea," Tyler laughed.

"Ok, fine, fine. We can watch Psycho?"

"I could watch Psycho. Sounds like a plan. I'll see you in an hour."

"Bye Ty," Brea said hanging up as Damon began to drive away. The entire drive was silent and the very definition of awkward. Once they pulled up outside their house Brea said, "thanks for the lift," before throwing herself out of the car, desperate to get away from Damon and Elena. "Oh my god, Jer. I have had a no good, very bad day," Brea said as she threw open the door. "I get your upset with me, but you've got to get over it because I need one of my Jer bear hugs," Brea called up the stairs. "Oh you're right there," she said as she saw him come out of the kitchen. "Wow what the hell happened to you!" Brea yelled as she saw a bandage over his neck.

"Katherine. I went in the tomb."

"She did what! Wait, why did you go in the tomb you noob!"

"Long story, but Stefan ran in there to save me. He threw me out."

"Wait, but if Stefan went in there. That means…" Brea realised as Jeremy nodded. "Elena," Brea realised and the two of them opened the door.

"What?" Damon asked.

"It's Stefan," Jeremy said as Tyler's car pulled up. After Jeremy filled Elena in Elena sprinted off to the car nearly running into Tyler. Damon took off close behind.

"What's that about?" Tyler asked. "Wow, bro, you ok?" he asked when he saw Jeremy.

"Yeah, he just. Fell. In the parking lot," Brea said quickly.

"Wow, made a mess of that one," Tyler said coming inside.

"Yeah, um lets go," Brea said dragging Tyler to her room before he could ask more questions. "I'll get the ice cream," Brea said running downstairs. She opened the freezer to only see chunky monkey. "Urgh, that's ruined for me now," she sighed as she grabbed plain vanilla as well as mini m&m's.

"What's he doing here?" Jeremy whispered.

"I think he's freaked about the full moon. I have to help in anyway I can," she said heading back upstairs. "Ok, we only had this or chunky monkey and that's off the menu. Ric ruined it for me. So I could these m&m's to spice it up," Brea said throwing the food at him. "And I got this," she said pulling a few beer bottles out from behind her back, "you look like you need it."

"You're brilliant," he smiled taking them from her as she turned to put the movie on.

"Cheers," he said clicking bottles together as they laid against the headboard watching the movie. "Thanks for being here for me," he sighed as she laid her head on his shoulder.

"Same here Ty. Same here," she sighed as they watched the movie.