Elena's eyes widened,"You have doppelganger blood, but how? You said Alanna was dead".
Roman nodded as he turned around to place the blood back in the freezer, "She is...but", Roman locked the freezer and turned to meet Elena's gaze,"Klaus had Alanna for a number of months before she was killed, in that time he managed to get about twelve pints from her...which someone then stole". Roman put air quotes around the word someone, knowing damn well it had been him who had stolen the blood.
Elena's eyebrows rose,"You stole the blood, but didn't you know Klaus was going to come after you?".
Roman shook his head, "He didn't know it was me...not for a long time anyway,but I knew he suspected, so almost everywhere I went around the world. I would buy various properties. I had a witch friend of mine cloak every property I had, but just in case Klaus ever found out, I kept the blood for leverage".
Elena nodded, "So that's why you brought us here,because you had it cloaked".
Roman shrugged, "Yeah, so we should be safe...at least for a little while. Hopefully until we figure out how to get you back home, then," Roman sighed, "Well then I don't know but at least you'll be out of the cross fire".
Elena gave Roman a slight smile, happy that he even cared, but then her face fell a bit, she was unsure that she wanted to leave Stefan, Roman and Bonnie alone in this situation with Klaus.
Roman put his hand on Elena's shoulder making her look at him, "Hey it's not your problem...in fact with you being who you are, it's best we get you out of here before Klaus ever see's your face".
Elena looked at Roman a bit surprised, it was almost like he had read her mind.
Roman took his hand off her shoulder and sighed, "But for now you should probably get some sleep, and I", Roman paused and looked down at himself, he was still wet from the ocean, "Should go shower, so excuse me".
Elena watched as Roman walked out of the garage, leaving her alone, she couldn't help but wonder what on earth was gonna come next.
The next morning Elena was up early, she was freshly showered and decided to make some coffee in the kitchen. Roman was nowhere in site at the moment. While Elena waited on the coffee to brew, she decided to look around a little, mostly just out of boredom. While walking in the living room Elena noticed something she hadn't before, right above the tv Roman had some pictures hung up, they were of various things, but the one that jumped out too her was the one of Roman, Stefan and Damon, it looked like it was taken at the Mystic grill. Stefan was on the left, he wasn't smiling but his expression was very relaxed and content. Damon was in the middle with his one arm each around Roman and Stefan's shoulders, he had his signature smirk on his face. Roman was on the right, his face made Elena laugh, he had his eyes crossed with his cheeks sunken all the way in making it look like he had the mouth of a fish, the picture made Elena smile.
"Being nosy?".
Elana jumped, startled by Roman's voice, she turned to him, slightly annoyed,"Stop doing that".
Roman smiled, amused by her reaction, "Sorry".
Elena's face softened, she decided to answer his previous question, "Anyway, I wasn't trying to be nosy. I just noticed the picture. I like it".
Roman walked over to the picture. Elena moved to the side as he reached to take the picture off the wall. Roman stared at the picture for a few moments. Elena stood by just watching Roman's reaction. Roman smiled at the picture before a began to straight out laugh.
Elena grinned at Roman, wondering what he was laughing about, "What's so funny?".
Roman turned from the picture to look at Elena, a smile still on his face, "Just a memory of that day...you see", Roman turned to put the picture back on the wall before he turned to Elena once again, "Right after that picture was taken. Damon challenged me to a game of pool. Which I won, so he wanted two out of three. I win again, he goes three out of five. I win again, he goes five out of nine, and of course I beat him five times in a row, he got so mad that he chased me through the grill with a pool queue. I go outside and grab a tire iron from my car and we had a sword fight in the middle of the street. I mean cops got called, arrested us both and everything. Luckily a little compulsion took care of that, but damn it makes me laugh now".
Elena smiled almost despite herself, just imagining that was really ridiculous. Elena's face fell all of the sudden, she remembered something that had bothered her when she first arrived in this world.
Roman noticed Elena's sudden change,his expression now going to concern, "What's wrong Elena?".
Elena opened her mouth to speak, but she hesitated to ask the question, she remembered Stefan and Bonnie's reaction when she asked them, she tried to ask the question softly, "Roman what...happened to Damon".
Roman's face fell when he heard the question, his eyes went to the ground, he searched for the proper words, he looked up as if about to answer, but he now hesitated, after a moment he sighed, "Klaus...found me a few years ago and… I still don't know how but he did and he wanted to know what happened to the blood and my worst fear came true when he found out I had a family".
Flashback
Mystic Falls,2012
Roman rushed through the front door of the Salvatore Boarding House, he had gotten a frantic call from Stefan that he had get home quickly. Something about Damon, he speeds up to Damon's room. Finding Stefan standing in the middle of the room, his hand over his mouth in concern, not bothering to turn to face him. Roman walks cautiously, afraid of what he'll find. Roman's eyes widen in shock when he sees the bed, on it was Damon, nearly unconscious, sweating profusely. Bonnie was by Damon's side trying to make him as comfortable as she could, you could tell she had been crying.
Roman approached, his voice frantic, "What the hell happened?".
To Roman's surprise it was Damon who spoke, opening his eyes, "aaww, don't cry over me baby brother. I'll be fine".
Roman got angry at being teased, this was far from funny, "Clearly something is very wrong, now tell me what in the hell happened to you Damon".
Damon started to breath heavy, it was a few torturous moments before he spoke, "Got bit, by some guy named Klaus, said he wanted you to meet him in the cemetery with his blood before it was too late...whatever that means".
Roman's eyes widened again, 'Klaus, how the hell', Roman cut off his own thoughts, this was no time to ponder what's whys or hows, all he knew was he had to do something and fast.
Roman immediately went to rush out of the room, "You're gonna be okay. I'm gonna fix this".
Roman sped out of the room and to the basement of the house where he kept the blood stashed.
About ten minutes later Roman arrived at the cemetery, having rushed there like a madman, he walked through the grass searching in every direction for Klaus.
Roman saw no one around, getting angry being played with, his voice rose, "GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE. I HAVE WHAT YOU WANT!".
"Goodness what is with the tone mate, can't we be civil".
Roman turned toward Klaus, rage written all over his face, Klaus however had a nice big grin, it was like he thought this was a game.
Roman tossed the cooler he had to Klaus, "It's in there...all of it".
Klaus opened the cooler, checking to make sure all the blood was there, he looked at Roman annoyed, "So you HAVE had it...this whole time".
Roman's fist clenched in anger, "Enough games, how do I save my brother?".
Klaus pursed his lips feigning like he was in thought, "Well I would tell you but", Roman all of the sudden yelled out in pain, he clutched his head, dropping to his knees. Klaus grinned triumphantly, "I don't really think you deserve it".
A woman appeared in front of Roman out of the blue, she had her hand out in front of her, an intense look of concentration on her face. Roman fell to the ground still clutching his head.
Klaus approached Roman, crouching right beside him, "You see mate, unfortunately for you. I enjoy torturing you too much, but on the bright side, you did buy your other brother and his girlfriend another day, so it's not all bad, and as for you...I see you around".
Klaus stood up and grabbed the women, obviously a witch and sped off with her. Instantly the pain in Roman's head was gone, he got to his knees and frantically looked in every direction for any sign of Klaus, but he found none. Klaus was already long gone. Roman began seething, his rage boiling over to the point that his eyes turned yellow and his fangs came forth, he let out a intertal yell of rage.
"NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
Roman rushed back to the Boarding house once he collected himself, he walked through the front door to find Stefan a crying mess in Bonnie's arms, she looked up at him when he entered, the tears on her face spilling as well, the look she gave him was all he needed. Roman walked up to Damon's room, just to confirm it with his own eyes, he stopped at the doorway, hesitating, he didn't want to look , but he forced himself to step through. Roman gasped at what he saw. Damon, gray, veins protruding and very, very dead, the sight floored him to no end. Roman got a far away look in his eyes as he turned and walked away. Roman slowly made his way through the house and out the door. Roman wandered through the streets of Mystic Falls, a look of disbelief on his face, he was aimless, he had no clue of his destination until he got there. Roman sat on the porch of the house, his emotions finally hitting him like a truck, his lip began quivering,tears began spilling, his breath hyperventilating. Roman became so lost that he never heard the door open behind him, but he felt the hands on his shoulders.
"Roman".
Roman just barely managed to turn his head, to meet the girls questioning but concerned blue-green eyes, he tried to speak a few times, his mouth opening and closing, but in the end he just managed to to say her name through his oncoming tears.
"Caroline".
Roman turned his head and laid his face into his hand and began bawling. Caroline wrapped her arms around him from behind, laying her head on his back and just held him as he sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.