AN: I had this idea floating through my mind and while sitting down and writing this came up! Yes-it features a different Elena meeting as well befriending an Original Elena.
Originally it would have been a 'clone Elena' but I decided against using a 'clone' and yes, Original Elena is a twin but her twin is a combination of canon Elena as well as a stereotypical mean girl (I should feel good-never dealt with many mean girls) so if I made the twin a little crueler than normal I'm sorry
Original Elena/Alternate Elena idea:
Elena Gilbert thought her life couldn't get more complicated until she died and memories began forming in her mind.
Damon meeting her first, Stefan compelling her to give him a second chance after finding out about Katherine and his cheating on her with her twin sister Emma, Damon compelling her to forget what he did to Caroline and what he almost did to her and the list kept growing.
There was another memory-this time of Sheila Bennett utterly taking her magic from her with the help of a girl who looked remarkably like her and Emma. Elena didn't think that the girl had any choice as she saw Sheila and another man-John-ordering the girl to 'take the magic'.
She did see her father Grayson there and Miranda was leaving with Bonnie and Emma, commenting about them not being 'weird'.
Closing her eyes she looked up at the Original who was watching her like she was his prey before he handed her a bag of blood.
"Thanks Klaus," she whispered softly as she drank, completing the transition seamlessly. "Thanks for hiding me and turning me."
Niklaus 'Klaus' Mikaelson nodded as he watched the newest Original drink the bagged blood.
"How do you feel about pretending to play dead?" He asked. "No one will find out about you being alive and you can find that girl from your dreams."
She nodded as the idea appealed to her since she's been dreaming of that girl from her memories.
"So who gets to go with me on my road trip?" She asked.
"Rebekah and Kol or Elijah?" he told her. "You pick."
As Elena was sitting in her SUV she watched her friend/road trip buddy from underneath her lashes.
"So Rebekah is at school while Kol is in Haiti," Elena mused. "Why did you decide to come with me?"
"I'm here to be your friend and to sate my curiousity," Elijah Mikaelson told her. "If there is a girl who looks like you that you've never met does that mean you're actually a triplet? Or is there another nefarious reason for there being three doppelgängers?"
"I'm going to say nefarious reasons," Elena said rolling her eyes before sighing. "What would you say is difficult? Being a doppelgänger-human or vampire-or being an Original?"
"Being a Mikaelson and an older sibling," he replied. "You know how challenging being an older sibling is."
Emma Gilbert smiled as she was kissing Damon her boyfriend. She and Stefan did break up but only because he was showing that he didn't care for anyone-not even Rebekah.
Damon cane into her life when she needed him the most-when she thought that her twin sister was being unreasonable and selfish for not following through with her plan-granted, Damon came up with some bits of it-but it was a good plan!
Help Esther with killing the siblings and everything will be okay.
But Elena refused and not only squealed on them but stopped them from drinking the champagne!
Even Bonnie was disappointed in Elena and tried having Elena get punished by the spirits yet they refused.
Though now Emma had a plan and that was to ignore Elena as well as make her a social pariah.
It was all over the news-Elena Gilbert is missing, presumed dead. Emma was scream crying (or trying to), Damon didn't seem to care, Bonnie seemed a little sad, Caroline was trying to find her, Jeremy was feeling numb and Stefan was combing the forest.
Klaus himself was drinking some whiskey as Rebekah was glowering at him.
"You sent Elijah away?" She asked him angrily. "Leaving me stuck with you? Do you hate me?"
"You have school and Elijah expects you to finish your final year," Klaus told her. "Or do you remember the last time you tried to attend a college and couldn't get into it? He doesn't want that to happen again because there's so many times he can compel people for your pleasure."
She huffed childishly and walked away from him. He laughed as she slammed her bedroom door shut angrily.
"Keep up your studies," he called out. "If you fail I'm allowed to take away quite a few things of yours and donate them!"
Bonnie was bent over a map and blood dripped out of her nose as Damon and Emma (who had tear stained cheeks) were looking over her shoulder. Emma's blood was only shown in Mystic Falls.
"If she's here then she'd be seen," Bonnie noted before wiping the blood from her face. "Maybe grams has another grimoire with other spells in it?"
"Let's go and look," Damon said with a wicked gleam. "Then maybe we can find a way to make her believe us to the point that she's almost a zealot to us."
In Oregon's Lithia Park an Elena lookalike was standing in a circle with a man watching her. In her hands was a necklace with a heart shaped crystal pendant that was glowing blue.
"Did you give her more dreams about you?" The man asked and she nodded. "Good."
"What if she can't help me?" She asked.
"We do it my way," he said with a smile. "You will end up as a vampire instead of a siphoner."
Elena looked around the five star hotel room Elijah got them before she suddenly found a blood bag in front of her.
"I don't think that I'm hungry…" she began only for Elijah to open the blood bag and the scent-rusted copper and orange juice mixed together-made her mouth water. She instantly took the bag and drained it dry. "I guess I was," she admitted with a blush.
"Most newborn vampires need blood every four hours," he told her. "I had a feeling you were going to need blood soon."
"What do you think we're going to learn about the other doppelganger?" She asked, bypassing his statement as Klaus made a mention or nine before they left.
"How she came to be," he hummed. "Now why don't you lay down and try to sleep?"
"I'm too wired," she said. "I can't sleep."
The lookalike was waiting for a few hours until she saw Elena Gilbert and a twenty four year old man in a suit walking towards her. The man with the lookalike stood up and stayed where he was, hidden in the shadows.
"You're probably wondering who I am and why we look alike," she said as Elena opened her mouth. "It's nothing nefarious on your end…it's a long story." She sighed. "I can shorten it in a simple manner." She grinned. "What do you know of alternate universes?"
"They're like sister dimensions or parallel universes," Elena said. "What does this have to do with you?"
"I'm actually from one," she admitted. "However I had been-well, to be honest-died in one when I was little. I was told that everything I did in that reality became nothing more than a black hole."
"What did you do when you were little?" Elena asked.
"You know how that monster Emma treats you?" Elena nodded. "Everyone treated me like that to the point that at four years old all that anger, rage, sadness and whatever synonyms you can come up with exploded. Everything died and think like in the Marvel Comic Books with Thanos who snapped his fingers-I was Thanos."
"Yet you're alive," the man noted. "How?"
"Fate, Destiny," the other Elena told him. "Who are you?"
"Elijah Mikaelson," he said. "You're saying that instead of fixing your reality they-Fate and Destiny-sent you here?"
"Obviously Elijah Mikaelson," other Elena told him. "But maybe we can change my name? Elena is a common name and honestly? I've grown weary of it."
"What would you like to be called?" Elena asked her double.
Other Elena looked thoughtful before nodding.
"Don't laugh but Katerine," Other Elena said blushing. "Unless it's being used."
"I like it," Elena said and Elijah nodded. "Katerine fits you." Elena then looked at Katerine curiously. "What do you have for me?" Katerine held out the necklace.
"Your magic," Katerine told her. "Sheila Bennett and my previous 'father' John had me extract your magic and place it in a necklace but instead of giving it to her I took it and ran when I met him," she motioned to the man in the shadows. "Tristan de Martel."
AN: this story was a little pet project of sorts and when I get a little more time I'll try to write this story out
