Chapter 3

Edward…'s lookalike looked over at Angela who was still staring in shock. He stared into her eyes at spoke in a tone completely different from his previous shouting. "Leave. Go to the Ferris wheel and forget that you saw me." Angela immediately obeyed and walked away.

"Edward?"

"Who's Edward?"

"Who's Katherine?"

"Okay, look. You can't try to pretend that you're another doppelgänger or whatever. If there was one, the travelers' spell wouldn't have worked." he said. I didn't know how to respond; he was completely convinced that I was Katherine, whoever that was.

"Wait, did you just say doppelgänger?" I asked, suddenly realizing what might be going on. "You don't think that there are any left. But my boyfriend, Edward, looks exactly like you." He was about to respond when he was thrown off of me.

"Bella!" Edward yelled. "Oh my god… there's so much blood."

"Can you tell me what's going on?"

The scene in front of me was probably the strangest thing I had ever witnessed. Leaning over me was my boyfriend, eyes black from the sight of my blood. Standing next to us was my boyfriend's… doppelgänger. And arms crossed with an exasperated look on her face as if this happens every day was the creepy blonde girl I just couldn't seem to get rid of. When no one responded to her, she sighed and wooshed her way next to me. Edward hissed at her, "What are you doing?"

I winced as she pulled the stake from my stomach. She casually bit her arm. "Drink," she ordered me. When I stared at her in shock she forced her arm in front of my mouth and I was forced to swallow her blood. Almost instantly, I felt the wound close up as if it had never been there. Both Edward and I were staring at my stomach which was now completely fine. "Okay so let me get this straight," she said to Mr. Doppelgänger. "You've been gone for a month without saying goodbye to anyone and now you're here trying to kill another one of Elena's doppelgängers? How did you not realize she's human?"

"I thought I was Katherine's doppelgänger," I said, trying to make sense of what's happening.

"We'll explain later," he said. Then he turned to the girl, "I saw her hand! It blistered when that shake I put vervain in spilled on it. Caroline, I didn't even know they lived here when I moved." This upset Caroline and she started yelling. I looked down at my hand. The vervain (whatever that is) hadn't burned it; I'm just clumsy when it comes to curling irons.

"Moved? I thought you were supposed to be looking for ways to undo the curse! I can't even go home without burning ali-"

"Did you just say you were a vampire?" Edward interrupted.

They both turned to him and Caroline mumbled, "No, I didn't say that but yes we are."

He continued, "But you bleed. And your blood heals people."

"Well," Caroline said. "You're obviously not human so what are you?" Edward opened his mouth to answer and then closed it again. I knew he was going to say vampire but obviously, that's a pretty broad term.

"I'm the same as you. But only in the 'drinking blood' sense. I don't bleed so I can't heal people as you can." he said, choosing his words carefully. "I can also read minds." Right when I thought I couldn't be more confused, he started answering questions from Caroline's mind. "No, I can not mind control people and no it's not something my whole species can do. Reading minds is my power. Who the hell is Silas?"

People were starting to stare. It must look silly from their perspective; a set of twins staring at each other as if they had never met before and one of them is talking to himself. Edward's doppelgänger seemed to notice too and spoke up, "Do you guys want to go somewhere to discuss this? This probably isn't the best place to talk so loudly about vampires." We all nodded in agreement and got up to leave when I remembered about the friend I brought with me.

"Oh! Uh… what's your name again?"

"Me? I'm Stefan."

"Where's Angela? She's the one that you.." I struggled to find words for whatever Stefan did.

"Compelled," he helped me out. "She should still be at the Ferris wheel." I felt relief wash over me and I thanked him and started walking over there to go get Angela when Edward grabbed my arm.

"Bella," he raised his eyebrows at me. "Do you really think that it'd be a good idea for her to see you like that?" he gestured down at my bloody shirt with a hole exposing my completely healed midriff. "And I think she might be a little bit confused when she sees two of me and Caroline. I'll make up a story and drive her home. Why don't you go with-" he hesitated, not sure if he trusted the two of them.

"Don't worry," Caroline reassured him. "We won't hurt Bella. We can take her to her place and we'll discuss everything we know." Edward looked at Caroline for a couple of seconds and decided to trust her from whatever he heard in her head. Then we took off.

By the time we arrived at my house, I had explained pretty much every aspect of how Edward's species of vampire worked. Caroline had hundreds of questions.

"They don't have to burn in the sunlight? They just sparkle!? I want that. Humans are turned just by being bitten? So there's no dying involved? And how do they even function without fangs? Oh and if they don't have any blood then how does he get-"

Stefan cut her off, thankfully. "We're here." We all got out of the car and walked towards the house. I opened the door with the key from under the flowerpot. When I got into the house, I was confused about why they didn't follow me inside. Caroline answered my unvoiced question, "We can't come in until-"

She was cut off all of a sudden, "Until you invite them inside," said Alice, who had suddenly appeared on my porch.

"I've sure been interrupted a lot today," muttered Caroline. "Who are you?"

Alice ignored her and focused on me, "Don't let them in, Bella. You only trust them because he," she gestured to Stefan, "looks like Edward."

"Hey! We would never hurt Bella." Caroline shouted, evidently offended. Stefan put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down.

"She has a point. Bella doesn't have to let us in until she can trust us." he turned towards Alice and started to apologize but she had disappeared just as fast as she came. "Let me guess, she's a witch?"

I didn't even know witches existed but after today, so must dragons. Probably shouldn't say that; I'll jinx it. "No, she's just Edwards psychic sister. She gets a little dramatic sometimes."

"Ooh, fun. Bonnie 2.0," Caroline sighed and Stefan laughed. Something about the way they looked at each other after mentioning her told me there was a reason Bonnie wasn't with them at the moment. I looked at her questioningly and she said, "Seeing that you are a doppelgänger and you don't seem as bad as Katherine, we should just tell you everything."

"Well, I have a lot of time." I urged her.

Stefan smiled. "I guess I'll just start from the first supernatural being I ran into. A century and a half, I met Katherine Pierce."

It took about an hour for Stefan and Caroline, to sum up all the different types of supernatural beings they knew of. I went from knowing about Vampires and Werewolves to knowing about the original vampire family, witches, even more werewolves, hybrids, travelers, and anchors. And then they explained some pretty weird stuff like daylight and resurrection rings and how apparently there is an afterlife. By the end, I was just as confused if not more.

"Okay, so the world is crazy. But I still don't know why you," I looked at Stefan, whose similarity to Edward was getting distracting, "are here in Forks." Caroline, who didn't seem to know either, stared at him, waiting for him to answer.

"It would take too long to explain how, but my brother died a couple months ago. I moved to Washington two months ago hoping to start over in a place rainy enough that I didn't need to wear this." he pulled his daylight ring out of his pocket. "I just got to this town a week ago because it's small and the chances of running into other vampires were low. Evidently, I was wrong since Edward's family lives-"

Suddenly, Caroline snapped. "You've lived here for over two months?" she demanded.

"Yeah I guess I… have," he responded, noticeably uncomfortable.

"Well I guess that's just weird because you know, everyone thought you were looking for ways to get Damon and Bonnie back and take the spell off our town! Instead, you've been here doing what exactly?"

Stefan went silent. "I came to the West Coast following a lead about a group of witches in Oregon called the Gemini coven."

Caroline shook her head furiously, her blonde curls bouncing. "Seeing as you're here and not in Oregon, that can't be the reason."

Stefan was suddenly just as angry as her and he stood up.

"For months, Caroline, I followed every lead Alaric sent me, I spoke to every witch, every shaman, every psychic in over twenty countries and all of them were dead ends." Caroline looked like she was going to keep arguing when Edward arrived.

"Is everything all right? I heard screaming." I knew Edward was only asking so not to freak them out since he would've heard the entire conversation on his drive here.

"No," Caroline politely smiled, "Everything is fine."

"Well, it's getting pretty dark. You two should probably head home."

Caroline and Stefan looked each other awkwardly, "We don't actually have anywhere to go," said Caroline, "But I can get a hotel room."

Alice suddenly appeared (again).

"You can stay at our place. I discussed everything with the others and they are all fine with you staying."

"Can you teleport?"

"Is that a yes or a no?

Stefan nodded and Caroline agreed reluctantly. We all got into Edwards car and headed to their house with Alice in the middle seat in the back.

If you couldn't tell, Stefan and Caroline's conversation at the end was taken mostly from episode two of season six. Please review!