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Writer's Notes: Thank you kouga's older woman, Guest, and CrazyGryl for your reviews! I promise that it will make sense. I'll try narrowing the focus more. As always, thank you everyone for your support!
Lexi, Violet, and Stefan sat in the little coffee shop at one of the high tables. Lexi and Stefan were laughing over something in their past. Violet had gotten up to get her coffee when her name was called. Stefan's eyes slid towards her back and Lexi noticed the stare. "What is it? Do you know her?"
Stefan's eyes refocused on Lexi's bright blue eyes now. "Not her…but…" he said and then Violet was back at the table now.
"So, Lexi, how long have you and Stefan known each other?" Violet asked setting her cup down on the table and pulling a chair out and taking a seat, tossing her bag over the back of the chair.
Lexi made a 'hmm' sound. "155 years now give or take," she answered, and Stefan looked between the two with a shocked expression.
"What? You didn't think I didn't know all about my best friend?" Violet said, raising a brow before bringing her coffee to her lips, blowing on it a little before sipping.
"I just assumed…" Stefan trailed off. "Okay, well it has been a long time since we've known each other, but we've fallen out a few times here and there."
Lexi snorted. "Right, who's the one who was able to pull you back from your blood ledge?"
Stefan smiled at his friend now and reached a hand across the table and patted hers. "Thank you," he said simply.
Violet looked at the rose gold smart watch on her wrist when it vibrated. "Oh, I have to go. Class," she muttered with a smile and waved at the two before taking off towards class.
Stefan waited until she was gone before letting out a sigh. "I think that Violet is a doppelgänger."
"She's not. Trust me," Lexi said and then stood, grabbing her bag. "Listen, I'll come back with you to Mystic Falls. I know that you're going to need all the help you need. Violet can help, she has abilities that will be beneficial," she said, and Stefan only looked at her confused. She continued. "Just trust me Stef," she said and then kissed his cheek before leaving him there in the coffee shop, still dumbfounded by the whole exchange.
Later that night, Lexi, Violet and Stefan set off to Mystic Falls. Stefan wasn't sure bringing in a human to help with a vampire war was necessarily going to do much good, but he trusted Lexi, so he went along with it. Worst case scenario he could just lock Violet away with the rest of the humans.
Charlie stood outside the door at Salvatore boarding house and looked at how massive the entire place looked. The porch was large, and bare he noticed. With such an extravagant place he figured there would be more to the outside. He sighed and raised his hand to knock but the door pulled open before he could. Standing there was a man, tall, with dark raven hair and piercing, icy blue eyes. He stood there with a glass of what he assumed was some sort of alcohol from the color and type of glass it was in. He was wearing a black V-neck t-shirt and blue jeans.
"Um…I'm Charlie- "
Damon cut him off. "Mr. Swan. You're Bella's dad. Please come in," Damon said standing aside and made an exaggerated show of his arm and allowed Charlie to walk past. Charlie did so hesitantly. "Bella!" Damon called up the stairs.
Bella came to the top of the stairs a few moments later and walked down them briskly. "Damon, I told you, you don't have to scream my name when you need something. Coming up and politely- "she cut off when she saw her dad. She smiled and went and hugged him tight.
"Hey Bells," he murmured into her hair as she hugged him tight. "Missed you kiddo," he said and then pulled back to look her over. She seemed fine. She was still too thin, but her eyes didn't seem to be so dull anymore. He had worried about her intensely while being away. He knew that Alaric wouldn't let anything bad happen to her…intentionally.
"Missed you too dad," she said and then looked to Damon. "Oh, this is Damon Salvatore," she introduced Damon and he nodded and raised his glass. Bonnie was opening the front door now without knocking and almost ran into Charlie.
"Oh! I'm sorry," Bonnie said and then Damon reached over and grabbed Bonnie's wrist and smiled at Charlie. "This is Bonnie Bennett, neighborhood witch. We have important matters, you have fun with your dad Bella," he said and pulled a stunned Bonnie to the other room, her arms clutched around an old, leather-bound book.
"Uh…" Charlie said and looked to Bella. "Is he always so…"
"Prickly?" Bella asked and Charlie chuckled and nodded.
"He is and… more. You caught him on a sort of good day. Stefan isn't here at the moment and he left without telling Damon, so Damon is antsy. Bonnie is here to do a locator spell for him," she explained and realized how crazy it sounded and that she said it like it wasn't a big deal. She was glad that Alaric decided to have the supernatural talk with her dad. She wasn't looking forward to that part.
Suddenly Jake was coming through the door fastening his cut off shorts and almost ran into Charlie and Bella. "Oh Bells, Charlie!"
Charlie looked at the shirtless Jake and then looked back at Bella with a brow raised.
"Oh, Jake and the others don't like to wear a lot of clothing because they shift…" Bella trailed off when Charlie started laughing.
"It's okay Bells. I know the whole deal," he said and turned to Jake and shook his hand. "It's good to see you Jake. Oh, Billy wanted you to call him. I talked to him this morning," Charlie relayed the message. Jake nodded and disappeared into the kitchen to hunt down some food. He left Jared and Leah on patrol while Paul, Embry and Seth went into the town to take a look around.
"Charlie Swan," Alice's musical voice filled the air now as she flitted down the stairs. Charlie's face was a mix of surprise and confusion at first but then he smiled really big as Alice pulled him into a big, warm hug.
"Alice, it's so good to see your smiling face again," Charlie beamed. He had always loved Alice dearly. It had saddened him that she moved away, but now he understood Carlisle better and didn't blame anyone but Edward for the state Bella was in after they moved away.
"It's really good to see you too Charlie," She said and kissed his cheek.
Bella smiled at the exchange and heard a crash in the other room. Bella turned and went and saw that Damon had thrown his glass. Bella rushed over to him. "Damon?" Her cool hands went to his face and tilted his face to look at her. "What's wrong?" She could see the irritation and frustration in his eyes.
Damon closed his eyes and sighed. "Stefan is in Mystic Falls. He's just…missing. Bella, he doesn't drink human blood. He's weaker…" he was clearly concerned for his brother. Of course, he would think up all the worse things that could have happened. There were crazy nomadic Cold Ones out there stirring up trouble and Stefan just went off without saying a word to anyone.
Bella nodded and looked over at Bonnie. "I'm sorry. Can you go grab the broom and dustpan so I can clean up the glass," she said, and Bonnie nodded, understanding and left the room. This was one of the rare occasions that she witnessed Damon actually showing emotion that he cared for someone. Charlie watched his daughter calm down a vampire that was known to be violent and have anger issues. She did it without fear. "Damon, Stefan knows what he's doing. Do you want to call Klaus and see if he has heard from Stefan?"
Damon's eyes flew open, anger in them. "I will not call that dagger happy hybrid freak," his voice was like ice.
Bella sighed and let her hands fall. "Fine. I'll call him then," she said and turned and left Damon in the parlor sulking. She smiled at her dad. "He'll be fine. Don't look so petrified dad. He's not going to hurt anyone. His violent days are behind him…mostly." Bella reassured her dad, but honestly she was reassuring herself. "Listen, I have to make a call," she said, and her dad nodded.
"I understand. I only dropped by for a few. I'm on my way to the stationhouse actually to talk to Sheriff Forbes," he said and then hugged and kissed his daughter before hugging and kissing Alice. Jake was in the kitchen stuffing his face with food. Charlie ducked into the doorway and waved at Jake who gave a thumbs up and continued to eat, he left out the front door and got back into Alaric's SUV he was letting him use and drove towards the stationhouse to meet up with Liz. It had been a while, three years, since he had seen Liz.
Alice slid a hand down Bella's arm. "Go call Klaus, I'll go get Jasper and see if he can calm Damon down," she said and flitted away.
Bella pulled out her phone and called Klaus. He picked up immediately. Most vampires did pick up on the first ring, she thought.
"Ah Little Swan, to what do I owe this pleasure?" his accented voice filled her ear, making her shiver a bit.
"Uh, have you heard from Stefan?" She asked, leaving the foyer and going outside into the coming spring air.
"Why yes actually. He's here with me. Did you need to speak with him?" Klaus' voice was full of amusement.
"Actually, yes please," she said, surprising Klaus. There was a moment of silence and then Stefan was on the line.
"Bella?" he said quizzically. It wasn't like Bella to be calling for him.
"Stefan, good. Damon was worried about you. You haven't answered his calls?" Bella said quickly.
"Tell Damon I'm fine. My phone is dead. Tell him I went to meet an old friend and bring her back for the impending doom," he stated, and rushed off the phone handing it back to Klaus.
Bella was frustrated that he left her to speak to Klaus now. "Thank you."
"Little Swan, anything for you," he said and then hung the phone up.
Bella looked at her phone a moment and sighed before going back inside to relay that Stefan was okay and that Damon was just being…Damon.
Violet was eyeing Klaus and Stefan. Lexi was watching Stefan pace while thinking. "You know you're making me dizzy watching you pace in circles. Why not just go back to Salvatore boarding house? Why are we stuff with this arrogant ass?"
Klaus raised a brow and Lexi stuck her tongue out at him.
Violet crossed her arms across her chest. "I'm thoroughly confused. Your thoughts are too hazy for me to see through," she said.
Stefan stopped and that caused Klaus to look at Violet now too. "What do you mean my thoughts?" Stefan said walking over to Violet.
"Lexi didn't tell you," Violet sighed. "I can read minds, but I can't do that if you're thinking things a million times a minute. You got to slow it down."
Klaus walked over and studied her. "You Little Foxx, just became much more interesting. Stefan, I think you need to chat with dear Violet here and tell her about Bella."
Stefan looked sharply at Klaus and Lexi raised a brow. "Bella? Who is Bella?"
"Yes, who is this Bella?" Violet said and then gasped when she saw the picture in Stefan's mind. "No way…" Violet murmured.
Lexi threw her hands up. "Will someone just spit it out already!"
"Bella is the identical image of your friend here Miss Branson," Klaus stated, and a smile toyed with his lips. "However, I don't think they're doppelgängers."
"That's what you were talking about earlier?" Lexi said baffled.
Stefan looked to the ground. "Well…"
Violet sighed. "I was adopted as a baby. By Derek and Lilith Foxx. I lived in Seattle until I was ten and then we moved to Virginia. I always knew I was adopted. My parents never hid anything from me," she explained.
"So, you're what, Bella's sister?" Stefan asked.
Violet shrugged, bringing a hand up to her chin as if thinking about it. "It makes sense if I look exactly like here. I know that doppelgängers are not very common. It makes more sense for me to be a long-lost twin."
Klaus chuckled, but it was more like a rumble in his throat. "Well, this certainly is going to get very interesting very fast. For now, Little Foxx, you'll have to stay here until Stefan here can break this news to sweet Bella."
Violet crossed her arms and raised a brow "Oh really?"
Lexi stood and walked over. "I think he's right Vi, finding out you have a twin sister isn't exactly something that you just spring on someone."
"I'm fine," Violet pointed out.
"You're not normal," Lexi pointed right back.
"I'm going to go back to the boarding house. Lexi, can you stay here with Violet until I come back. I've got to talk to Alice," Stefan said and left before Lexi could even give his response.
Lexi sighed and sat back down in her chair. Violet looked over to Klaus, who was still studying her. "You know, if you keep staring at me, you might never get the image of me out of your mind."
Klaus raised a brow and turned and walked out of the room, leaving Lexi and Violet to sit there, waiting for Stefan to return with whatever it was he was trying to figure out.
Stefan made it back to the boarding house and opened the door and stepped inside. He walked to the kitchen first, looking for Alice.
"Hello brother," Damon said, and Stefan turned to see Damon leaning in the doorway.
"Damon. I need Alice," Stefan said and then Alice appeared behind Damon. She brushed past Damon into the kitchen.
"Found her," Damon called and narrowed his eyes at Stefan. "You left to get Lexi and she's not with you," he stated the obvious.
"She's with Klaus," Stefan said and turned to Alice. "I need you to come with me for a little bit."
Damon made a huffing sound. "Did the hybrid dick make fun of you again?"
Stefan sighed at his brother. "No. There's just…something that I need Alice's help with."
Alice smiled. "Sure, I'll come help."
Damon raised a brow. "Secrets brother, are never good."
"Well if it will shut you up, you can come with," Stefan snapped out at his brother. Damon thought about it for a moment. "Nah, I'll just wait here. You two have fun, and Stefan," he paused for dramatic effect. "Charge your phone."
Stefan shook his head and left with Alice. They stopped outside by Stefan's car. Stefan looked towards the boarding house.
"What is it Stefan?" Alice's musical voice asked, making him bring his gaze back to hers. Her dark eyes drew him in, giving him a dizzying affect.
"I…met someone at Whitmore College when I went to get Lexi. I need your help with how to handle the situation," he said, and Alice nodded. When Stefan dropped his gaze to the ground, Alice reached a hand up and lifted his chin to look back at her.
"You're really worried about this…" she said, her eyes searching his and then he leaned in and brushed his lips on hers lightly. It made his stomach do a little flip and then before he could think, one hand was on her face and the other on the small of her back, jerking her against him. His mind felt a little fuzzy, and when she didn't protest, he deepened the kiss.
He pulled back after a few moments and looked into her eyes, which were alive and lustful. "I'm sorry. We should get going," he said and then took a step back. Alice only nodded and went around to the passenger side and got in. They buckled up and headed back to the Mikaelson manor.
On the porch stood Elena. She had come over to the boarding house and was up with Bella in her room talking with Bonnie about some of the different spells they could try out when Stefan came in. He didn't give her time to get down the stairs to greet him. So, she went out to hopefully catch him before he left. They had a little disagreement at school the other day, so she just wanted to smooth things over. When he pulled Alice to him and kissed her, her heart slammed up to her throat and her eyes burned with tears and she watched them drive away.
Elena stood there dazed, trying to hold the tears that were threatening to spill over. She didn't even register that her name was being called until Elijah was standing in front of her. "Elena?" He said again and when she looked up at Elijah, the dam that was holding her tears back broke and she let the tears rush out. Her legs started to buckle under her, but Elijah caught her against him. They eased down to the ground slowly. She buried her face into his shoulder and cried the hardest she has in a while. Elijah brushed her hair with his free hand and just kneeled there in silence holding her against him while she cried.