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Sanura Bey


Three years ago

Katherine took me back to her place after our initial conversation.

"Please make yourself at home." she told me sarcastically. The house was a nice two story building and I was surprised it wasn't a mansion.

"Don't mind if I do." I sat on one of the sofas in the living room. In her living room it was very modern with a few things I assumed she'd collected over the years.

"What do you know? About Klaus and the curse?" she asked me as she stalked around the room.

"I've found multiple journals over the years describing the curse of the Sun and the Moon, you and finally Klaus. I now what you need to break it and I know who you can use." I told her and I knew I had her interested. "I know you need a werewolf, a vampire, and witch and the doppelganger. And Mystic Falls has all except the vampires but you could easily see to that gets changed." I told her smirking.

"And why would you want to kill off your friends or their family members? Surely there's something in this for you." she told me sitting across from me.

"Of course there is. I wouldn't come to if I had my own agenda." I told her.

"What is it?"


"Please she's hurt." I heard Elena say as I started coming to.

"I know. Just a taste." I heard a man say. Everything that had happened came back in a flash.

"Trevor! Control yourself." I heard a woman say as I began to open my eyes. I saw a man leaning down over me rolling his eyes.

"Buzz kill." Trevor said getting up and walking away leaving Elena and I with his partner.

"What do you want with us?" I asked her.

"Oh my god, you look just like her." She said looking between the two of us.

"But we're not. Please, whatever you…" Elena tried explaining to her but she wouldn't hear it.

"Be quiet!"

"But we're not Katherine. My name is Elena Gilbert and this is my sister Nicole; you don't have to do this." Elena tried explaining to her.

"I know who you are, I said be quiet." She told her.

"What do you want?" Elena asked her and the vampire slapped her hard. Elena fell to the couch, unconscious and I checked to make sure she was alive.

"I want you to be quiet."

"You didn't have to hit her that hard." I told the woman calmly as she walked out the room.


I waited for Elena to wake up while our captors were upstairs. When she woke up she started to say something but I clamped her mouth shut. I pointed to my ears then upstairs. She got up and we made our way upstairs to try and listen to the conversation.

"So that's it Trevor. He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait." The woman told him.

"Look, it's not too late. We can leave it here. We don't have to go through with this." Trevor begged her.

"I'm sick of running!" The woman shouted at him.

"Yeah? Well, running keeps us from dying." Trevor reminded her.

"Elijah's old school. If he accepts our deal, we're free." The woman said as Elena tried to move closer making one of the boards squeak drawing their attention to us.

"You! There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?" The woman asked us.

"Who's Elijah?" Elena asked her and I looked away.

"He's your worst nightmare." she told us walking away again.


The woman was moving around in another room boarding up windows alone when I walked in on her with Elena close behind me.

"Why am we here?" I asked her.

"You two keep asking me these questions like I'm gonna answer them." She said avoiding the answer.

"Why won't you?" Elena asked her.

"That's another one."

"What's your name?" I asked her. I had my suspicions but I wanted certainty.

"Rose."

"Look, you got us, okay? It's not like we can go anywhere. The least you can do is tell us what you want with us." Elena said trying to dig more information from her.

"I personally want nothing; I'm just a delivery service." she told us.

"Delivery to Elijah?" I asked her.

"Two points to the eavesdropper." She told me.

"Who is he? Is he a vampire?" Elena asked her.

"He's one of the vampires, the originals." Rose told us.

"What do you mean the originals?" Elena asked her.

"Again with the questions. Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you your vampire history?" Rose asked us.

"So you know Stefan and Damon?" I asked her.

"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan. She said he was one of the good ones. I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys though but I digress." She told us.

"Here here.'' I told her raising an imaginary glass. to her.

"Who are the originals?" Elena asked her giving me a look.

"Trevor and I have been running for 500 years. We're tired, we want it over. We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess." She told us.

"But why us?" Elena asked her.

"Because you're Petrova Doppelgängers. You're the key to breaking the curse." Rose told us.

"The curse? The sun and the moon curse?" Elena asked her.

"Oh, you do know your history." Rose said slightly surprised.

"What do you mean we're the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse." Elena told her.

"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse. The sacrifice is what breaks it." Rose corrected her, finally revealing the truth I wanted hidden from her until after the ritual.

"The sacrifice?" Elena asked wanting clarification.

"The blood of the Doppelgänger. We're the Doppelgänger. Which means, in order to break the curse one of us has to die." I told her. Elena stared at me in shock questions, no doubt, were running through her mind. Trevor chose that moment to walk in to the room we were standing in.

"Tell me more." Elena demanded of us.

"Captivity has made her pushy, eh? What do you want to know doppelicious?" Trevor asked her.

"Who were you running from?" Elena asked him.

"The originals." He answered her.

"Yeah, she said that. What does that mean?" Elena asked him again.

"The first family, the old world. Rose and I pissed them off." He told us and Rose cleared her throat at him.

"Not how I heard it." I told him.

"Correction, I pissed them off, Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they wanted us dead." Trevor corrected himself.

"What did you do?" Elena asked him.

"He made the same mistake countless others did: he trusted Katerina Petrova." Rose said looking at me.

"Katherine." Elena looked at me as well but I ignored them both.

"The one and only, the first Petrova Doppelgänger." Rose told her finally talking her eyes off me.

"I helped her escape her fate and now I've, sorry, we've been marked ever since." Trevor finished the tale for my sister.

"Which is why we're not gonna make the same mistake again." Rose told him. Elena walked to the couch and sat down as they left the room She found a piece of paper and read it before handing it to me. "Stefan and Damon are coming for you" -B


Later during the day, Trevor entered the room that Elena and I had been held in with Rose as our guard.

"He's here! This was a mistake." Trevor told Rose.

"No, I told you I would get us out of this. You have to trust me." Rose told him, trying to calm him down.

"No! He wants me dead, Rose!" Trevor reminded her.

"He wants them more." she said motioning to us.

"I can't do this. You give her to him, he'll have mercy on you but I need to get out of here." Trevor begged her.

"Hey! What are we?" Rose asked him.

"We're family, forever." He said, finally calming down as someone knocked on the door.

"You're scared." Elena noticed.

"Trust me Elena, you would be to." I told her.

"Stay here with them and don't make a sound." She said then she left the room. When she came back a man was following her. Elijah. He rushed to Elena and I and looked at us. I pushed Elena behind me and he bent over and smelt my neck.

"Human and twins. It's impossible." He said looking at the two of us.

"Well not all that impossible, obviously." I told him.

"You are not afraid of me?" he asked giving me a confused look.

"Nope, just met someone who's scarier than you. Klaus." I told me and he looked slightly shocked, but he hid it well.

"We have a long journey head of us. We should be going." He told Elena and myself.

"Please, don't let him take us." Elena begged Rose, but Rose ignored her as did Trevor.

"One last piece of business and we're done." Elijah told us turning and walking to Trevor.

"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah. I'm truly, very sorry." Trevor apologized to him.

"Oh no, your apologies not necessary." Elijah told him walking behind him.

"Yes, yes it is. You trusted me with Katerina and I failed you." Trevor reminded him.

"Oh yes, you are the guilty one and Rose aided you because she was loyal to you and that now I honor. Where was your loyalty?" Elijah asked him.

"I beg your forgiveness." Trevor asked of him.

"So granted." Elijah told him. Trevor smiled but Elijah kicked his head clean off his body. Rose cried out and Elena grabbed my hand in shock at his actions.

"You…!" Rose went to attack him but he stopped her.

"Don't, Rose, now that you are free." He reminded her before turning back to us. "Come."

"No, what about the moonstone?" Elena asked him, trying to get braver again.

"Shut up, Elena." I told her not bothering to whisper.

"What do you know about the moonstone?" Elijah asked her.

"We know that you need it and we know where it is." She told him.

"Yes?" He asked her wanting the location.

"We can help you get it." She said, trying to negotiate with him.

"Tell me where it is." He ordered her.

"It doesn't work that way." I told him, trying to keep it going.

"Are you negotiating with me?" He asked us looking to Rose.

"It's the first I've heard of it." She told him. He rushed at us again and I pushed Elena on to the sofa as he reached us.

"Where is the Moonstone." He said trying to compel me.

"No." He looked at my lockets and grabbed them looking them over.

"What is this vervain doing around your neck?" He asked. He pulled my lockets off my neck and I tried to pull away from him but he grabbed my head. "Tell me where the moonstone is." He compelled.

"In the tomb, underneath the church ruins." I told him.

"What is it doing there?" He asked me.

"It's with Katherine." I told him once again.

"Interesting." he said looking away from me. A short time later we heard glass breaking from upstairs. "What is that?" Elijah asked Rose.

"I don't know." She told him.

"Who else is in this house?" He asked once more.

"I don't know." She told him again.

"Grab her." He told Rose, motioning to Elena as he grabbed my arm and pulled me to another part of the house. A vampire moved around us with their enhanced speed and Elijah threw me into Rose's unoccupied arm. "Rose." He said warning her for possibly lying to him.

"I don't know who it is." She told him.

"Up here." I heard Stefan say from upstairs. Elijah rushed upstairs but he was gone by the time he got up there.

"Down here." Damon said from next to us. He shot a stake into Elijah's hand and grabbed me and Rose while Stefan grabbed Elena. Damon had his hand over our mouths then removed the hand from my face.

"Excuse me. To whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me. You can't. Do you hear that?" Elijah called out into the house. I heard wood breaking and could only assume he was making a stake. "I repeat, you cannot beat me. So I want the girl, either one will do, I'm gonna count to 3 or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?" Elijah called into the house.

"I'll come with you, just please don't my friends and family, they just wanted to help us out." Elena called out to him. I tried pushing against Damon or calling out to Elena but he just pinned me to the wall and placed his hand back on my mouth. He had let Rose go and she sped away.

"What game are you playing with me?" I heard Elijah ask her. I heard something blow and him screaming. Damon let go of me and I rushed to see what was happening. He went toward Elena but Stefan shot him with a compressed air weapon. Stefan then threw the weapon and rushed him and Elena ran to me. Both Elijah and Stefan fell down the stairs but Elijah got up immediately while Stefan stayed down. Elijah started towards Stefan but Damon chose that moment to stake Elijah pinning him against a door. Elena ran down to Stefan and threw herself into his arms as Damon stood next to me.

"Thank you." I told him smiling lightly. I lost my lockets. Inside wasn't just my vervain but also a picture of my parents. In the second one was the only picture of the man I loved and next to it I was going to put my baby's picture. I'd decided to keep it and raise it right.

"Your welcome." Damon said looking down at me.


Elena and I were walking up the stairs when Bonnie and Jeremy rushed down and tackled us.

"Are you okay?" Jeremy asked us hugging me.

"We're okay. We're okay." I told him holding on to him tightly. I didn't want to let him do as tears fell down my face.

"We got your message." Elena told Bonnie.


I walked in my room from the bathroom in my pajamas, thinking about what was lost. When we'd gotten home Elena and I had eaten and talked with Bonnie and Jeremy until Bonnie had to go home. I'd added vervain back into my food. It had been a long time since I had to do that, but I had a supply just in case.

"Cute PJ's." I heard Damon say. I jumped at his voice, I hadn't been expecting anyone.

"I'm tired, Damon." I told him sitting on my bed.

"I brought you this." He said sitting next to me and holding my lockets.

"I thought that was gone. Thank you." I told him smiling at the necklace. I tried to take it from him but he pulled it out of my reach. "Please give it back." I almost begged him, that was important to me.

"I just have to say something." He told me.

"Why do you have to say it with my necklace?" I asked suspicious.

"Well, because what I'm about to say is… probably the most selfish thing I have ever said in my life." He told me, looking into my eyes.

"I doubt that, Damon." I told him.

"No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Nicole and it's because I love you that… I can't be selfish with you. Why you can't know this. I don't deserve you, someone else does." He told me before kissing my forehead. "God, I wish you didn't have to forget this but you do." He tried to compel me to forget and I saw a tear escape his eye. I closed my eyes and felt him put my necklace around my neck then leave. When I opened my eyes, Damon was gone. I touched my necklace and laid back on my bed, my mind was too busy to sleep now.


A few months ago:

"So, there was something I wanted to give you." he told me holding a box in his hands.

"What is it?" I asked him smiling. We'd gone back to his place after our date and were now laying in his bed.

"Why don't you open it and find out." He said handing me the box. I rolled over on my stomach and inspected the box. "It's not going to explode, darling, just open it." I looked at him from the corner of my eye and smiled. I opened the box to see two lockets. Both were gold and had beautiful designs on them. The only difference between them was the chain length and the gems in the middle of them. One held a ruby, red as blood, and the other held lapis lazuli, a stone I was very familiar with.

"Their absolutely gorgeous." I told him smiling at him.

"You didn't see the best part, look inside." I opened them and my heart stopped. Inside one was a picture of him and in the other was my parents, who'd past only a few weeks ago. I felt tears well up in my eyes as I smiled at the pictures. "I thought you'd like this better than anything else I could buy." He told me. "I love you, Nicole. I think I did from the moment I met you." He told me putting the necklace on for me.

"I love you too." I told him, kissing him deeply.