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I heard Damon's phone buzzing on the nightstand for the third time before I rolled over and pushed him, "Please shut that thing up before I fling it against a wall."
Damon groaned and reached over answering it, "Someone better be dead blonde." There was a pause before Damon sat straight up, "I'll be there in a minute you can tell me the details then." He hung up the phone setting it back on the table. "Tyler triggered is curse." He said getting out of bed.
"What?!" I asked urgently.
""Last night while we were stuck upstairs with Kathrine. I'm going to go over there and figure out what happened."
"That's what she was talking about last night mason not being the only wolf in town. Five bucks says it was her fault."
"You're not telling me anything I don't know."
"Well tell me everything later I have to get ready." I said finally getting out of bed. "If I try hard enough I may actually make it to school on time." I laughed.
"Come by after, I'll fill you in." Damon replied.
"I think I should probably go home tonight."
"So you'll be here." He smirked.
"I don't live here." I groaned.
"Whatever you say Pidge." He smirked before slipping out into the hall.
"Uggg." I finished getting ready and headed downstairs greeted at the door by Damon and a to go cup of coffee, I took a sip as I headed out, stopping just outside the door. "Umm you missed something."
"No, I didn't. You're cut off."
"So you are still mad." I said cocking my eyebrow.
"Nothing to do with that, Kathrine is locked away and you have your bracelet."
"Seriously?" I asked as he got into his car.
"Seriously."
I managed to make it to school right on time, I was pulling books out of my locker when Stefan walked up, "Have you talked to Elena?"
"No I stayed with Damon last night why?"
"Because Jeremy just told me she didn't come home last night and her car is still at the Lockwood's."
I pulled out my phone and quickly found Elena's number, it went straight to voicemail. I looked at Stefan who's face matched the concern I was feeling, "Go find Bonnie, tell her we need candles and meet me in Alaric's classroom." I scrolled through my phone and clicked on Damon's name, it rang a couple times before he answered, "Miss me already?"
"No, well yes but you need to come to the school, Elena is missing."
"I'll be right there." I heard the click of the line disconnecting.
A few minutes later Bonnie and Stefan walked into the room, I had already laid a map down on the desks, "Did Stefan fill you in?" I asked.
"Yeah, I grabbed candles and the grimoire, but why can't you do the spell?" Bonnie asked.
"Because I need to save up for something else." I replied. "Which I need some blood from you." I said to Stefan, I pointed to the desk, "There's cups in the drawer." Stefan did as I asked handing me the cup, and I tossed it back. The taste was off which I chalked up to Stefan bunny diet."
"And what may I ask is that for?" Damon said stepping in to the classroom.
"Repeat performance of last night's events." I shrugged, "I just need to see her, make sure she's ok. I'll be in and out." I added seeing the concerned look on his face.
"In and out?"
"In and out, less than 5 minutes." I held out my hand to Bonnie, "This first." Bonnie dragged the knife across my hand, I squeezed it letting the drops fall on the map. The blood started to move south finally stopping, "There," Bonnie said, "She's there."
"We need a more specific location Bonnie." Stefan said.
"That's all I got." She replied.
"Roll up that map and bring it with us. When we get close we can get a local map and there's a spell I can do." I looked down at my hand noticing the cut hadn't healed, "So off topic, does bunny blood mess with the healing effects?" I said holding up my hand.
"No." Stefan and Damon said at the same time.
I quickly started feeling dizzy and nauseous, I jumped up running over to the desk and picking up the trash can just in time to throw up Stefan's blood. Damon rushed over, "What the fuck?" I said wiping my mouth.
"I was going to ask the same thing."
"I don't know, we don't have time to figure it out now we need to go find Elena." I said setting the trash can down and walking to Alaric's weapons closet.
"You're no-"
"No. We're not doing this not now, not later, I'm going and you're going to shut up about it." I said as I turned around shoving weapons in a bag.
He threw his hands up before turning around and grabbing the map, folding it and handing it to Stefan, who walked out heading to the car. That left me and Damon alone, he took the bag from me and bit into his free wrist, "Still need it to do that spell." He said holding it out to me.
"To be honest I'm a little scared." I said, I took a deep breath and took his wrist, I immediately noticed the difference, Stefan's blood had tasted almost spoiled but Damon's was fresh, with a bourbon taste to it, my hand healed immediately, I let go of his wrist, "We gotta go." I said, he nodded and led me out of the room.
Once we got to the car I hopped in the back seat, "So do you think this is Kathrine?" I asked.
"How could it be? I left her ass in the tomb." Damon replied.
"Could have been someone working for her, didn't get the message that she's locked up."
"So Bonnie is going to get Jeremy to check out some aerial maps and see if there's anything in the area, we may not have to stop for another map." Stefan said.
"Less I have to do." I shrugged sitting back in the seat.
Damon looked back in the rear view mirror at me, "When are you doing your thing?"
"My thing?" I laughed, Damon rolled his eyes, "I wanna be closer less chance of burnout."
"You sure you're up for it?"
"Yes, I'm fine." I said aggravated. "What did Jeremy send you?" I asked Stefan, he passed his phone back showing a large house in the middle of nowhere, "It's the only thing around for miles." He said.
"If it wasn't Kathrine that took her who else would? And why?" I asked.
"I don't know, she was running maybe they got the wrong girl."
Something didn't sit right, I scoured my brain trying to remember anything that had to do with doppelgängers, coming up empty, truthfully I hadn't looked into it much since I had my own world of shit to deal with. The next couple hours had been filled with ideas of how to get Elena out, what weapons would be best, I managed to snag a vervain grenade when neither of them were looking.
"How far are we?" Damon asked.
"About 80 miles." Stefan replied looking at his phone.
"Alexis, hand me one of those blood bags." Damon held his hand out over the seat, I grabbed one of the bags from the seat next to me and handed it to him.
"Wouldn't from the vein be better?" I asked as he uncapped the "straw".
"We're not stopping and you need all yours so I'll take what I can get." He said before he took a sip. I noticed Stefan staring at him, apparently so did Damon, "You want some just ask."
"I want some." Stefan replied.
"Excuse me?" I said confused from the backseat, I knew he and Elena had talked about him drinking human blood but I didn't know anything had been decided.
"Aww how cute, trying to get all big and strong so you can save your girl." Damon mocked taking another sip.
Stefan snatched the blood bag from Damon, "Actually I've been drinking a little everyday, building up my tolerance." He took a sip and passed the bag back to Damon.
"What does Elena think about that?" Damon asked, his eyes flashing in the rearview mirror gauging my reaction.
"I've been drinking hers." Stefan said simply.
Damon was still looking at me, "What? I have absolutely no room to talk, I literally just offered you a vein." Damon focused back on the road, I leaned up and put my hands on Damon's shoulders, "I think we're close enough."
"In and out." Damon said, "You promised." He continued before I had a chance to argue.
"In and out." I nodded and took a deep breath, closing my eyes, just like last night my physical form was safe so I could concentrate all of my energy on my "spirit". "Apparaitre apparebis."
When I opened my eyes I was in and old house, the windows were covered and lots of lamps, must not have daylight rings. I hid in the shadows and looked through a large doorway, seeing Elena talking to a short haired woman, I stayed out of sight, listening to the conversation.
"What do you want me for?" Elena's voice carried across the archway.
"Personally I don't want you for anything I'm just a delivery service." The woman answered as she blocked off more windows.
"Alexis!" I could hear Damon's voice breaking through.
"Delivery for who? Elijah?" Elena asked.
"Points for the eavesdropper."
"Is he a vampire?"
"He's one of The vampires, an original." The other woman's voice sounded shaken.
"What's an Original?"
"Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you you vampire history?"
"You know about them?"
"I know of them a friend tried to set me up with Stefan a while back. Said he was one of the good ones."
Get on with it lady. I thought to myself. Damon's voice rang through again sounding impatient.
"Who are the originals?" Elena asked.
"Trevor and I have been running from them for 500 years, you are our ticket out."
"What would they want with me?"
"You're the Petrova doppelgänger, you're the key to breaking the curse." The woman said with a smirk.
"Are you talking about the sun and moon curse, the moonstone is the key to breaking it."
"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse the sacrifice is what breaks it."
My heart plummeted into my stomach as I waited for what came next.
"Sacrifice?"
"Yes the blood of the Doppelgänger, you are the doppelgänger. To break the curse you have to die."
I had to stop myself from making any noise, there were footsteps coming from a hallway, it was time to go. I closed my eyes and broke the connection.
"Alexis!" Damon's voice was clear along with the rumble of the car.
"What?" I said letting go of his shoulders and leaving back.
"You said in and out." He said impatiently, I ignored him looking out the window, processing what I'd just heard. The moonstone, the curse, Elena and I, all of it was connected. No one can seriously think I'd be ok sacrificing my sister, my twin sister at that.
"Hello." Damon's voice broke my concentration.
"What?" I said again.
"What did you see?"
"Elena is alive she's not even locked up. It's a big house, all the windows are covered, so I'm thinking vampires without daylight rings. I saw one but heard another they were talking about a third."
"You think you could do that little trick and make us all ''disappear?''
"All of us? No. I've never even tried to do it to anyone but myself. I'm sure it can be done but I can't guarantee I can do it." I already had a headache I stayed separated longer than I should have. Damon eyed me in the mirror once again, I wasn't about to risk everyone because I couldn't hold it together.
We pulled off on a side road a half a mile from the actual house, Stefan quickly grabbed the bag of weapons and got out of the car, Damon stepped out moving the seat so I could follow, "You can stay here, man the getaway car." He said putting his hands on my shoulders, I raised my eyebrow at him, "Yeah I didn't think so, no heroics follow the plan. You distract, me and Stefan will grab Elena, once you have their attention get out."
"I'll be the best bait I can be." I said rolling my eyes.
"You're not bait! A distraction. Now hop on."
He turned away from me and I put my hands on his shoulders jumping up, "Same thing." I said as I wrapped my legs around his waist burying my face in his neck. I knew this was the fastest and quietest way to get us to the house but I was not a fan. The sudden stop made me look up, the tall white mansion looked like it had been left to rot, windows cracked and broken, paint peeling off the walls.
"I don't like this." He whispered, letting go of my legs.
I smirked before mumbling the cloaking spell, Damon quietly broke the handle before stepping inside. I slipped passed him making sure not to touch him, I needed as little interference as possible. I took off down a hallway following the trail of artificial light and distant voices, finally coming to an end as it opened up into a huge foyer. I stood in the center, a staircase to my right and the front door to my left and waited for the signal that Stefan was ready.
Judging from the smell of blood in the air and the fact that I could see the female vampire from earlier led me to assume the man standing in front of Elena was Elijah. She was telling him where to find Kathrine and the moonstone, I was so focused on them that I almost missed the sound of breaking glass, Stefan was ready.
"What is that?" Elijah asked looking back.
"The female vampire straightened herself up and replied, "I don't know."
Showtime. I smirked to myself. *pop* one lightbulb shattered, *pop* another, I flung a painting off a window throwing a thin strip of light between the woman and Elena. I twisted my hand and watched as the chandelier fell to the ground with a crash.
"Who's in this house?" Elijah yelled, clearly flustered.
"I don't know." The other one repeated.
Elijah snatched Elena's arm and dragged her into the room I was in, I couldn't see Damon or Stefan but I knew they should be making their appearance right about now. *Pop* another lightbulb closer this time, I started backing up towards the hall I came from. I almost missed the blurs as they switched back and forth from upstairs to down running around Elena and the other two.
"Rose." Elijah scolded.
"Swear I don't know who it is."
"Up here." I heard Stefan's voice. Elijah threw Elena to rose and rushed up the stairs in a blur. "Down here." Damon's came from behind me. As Elijah turned around he caught a stake in the hand. When I looked back where I'd last seen Elena she was gone, Elijah walked down the stairs, snapping off a piece of the railing to use as a makeshift stake."I don't know what game you're playing but assure you, you can not beat me. You hear that you, will, not , win." I couldn't let him find them, "Phesmatos superous em animi." It took a moment for Elijah to feel the effects but once he did it hit him like a freight train, he gripped the sides of his head and fell to his knees. I wasn't going to be able to hold this long. My ears started ringing and then I felt it, the cloaking spell flickered, it was just long enough Elijah saw me and threw the stake, hitting me in the shoulder with enough force to throw me back. The cloaking spell was gone and Elijah was back on his feet headed towards me. I was frozen not that running was going to do me any good anyway.
"Stop!" I heard Elena's voice from the top of the stairs, "Please don't hurt my friends they were just trying to help me."
Elijah turned towards her and flashed up the stairs, "What game are you playing?"
"No game I'll come with you. Just please don't hurt them." She said, as he got within arms reach she threw up what I quickly recognized as one of the vervain bombs, he stumbled back but recovered fast. Reaching for Elena again he was stopped this time by Stefan he shot him with the co2 stake gun. Seeing Damon out of the corner of my eye, I used the distraction to pull the stake out of my shoulder, biting my lip to keep from screaming and tossed it to him. He quickly scooped it up. Stefan was out of ammo and decided to tackle Elijah to the floor, Elijah was up first towering over Stefan. "Hey!" I yelled getting Elijah's attention, I pulled the pin on the bomb and threw it towards him. Stefan blurred away and Damon took his shot, ramming the stake through Elijah's chest. Once he'd dropped to the floor I saw the veins creep across his face as he turned grey.
Elena came running down the steps towards Stefan, Damon looked to where Rose had been standing, "Just leave it." I said standing up.
"What the hell are you still even doing in here? You were supposed to draw them out and then go, back, to, the, car." The last part was through gritted teeth he was pissed.
"I feel like the large bleeding wound in my shoulder is punishment enough." I stumbled trying to take a step forward, he was at my side before I could really fall holding me up.
"There is so much more guilt headed your way." He scooped me up vamping is back to the car, Elena and Stefan were already in the back seat when we got there.
"I was going to leave," I said as he set me down, "I just got this overwhelming feeling I needed to stay, I was afraid he was going to find you." I looked at my shoulder, "We did learn something today, I burn through the vampire blood first otherwise I'd be healed by now."
"So what this was a test?"
"No, I mean it was something I'd been wondering but I had no intention to test it out here." The face he was giving me made me think he didn't believe me, "I swear I was halfway to the hall on my way out."
He bit into his wrist and held it out for me, I took it and drank until I felt my shoulder heal, "Thanks." I said. He nodded as he opened the car door and I got in.
During the drive home Elena explained that she had been walking back to her car when she'd been attacked from behind and handed off to the now dead vampire Trevor, Rose and he had been on the run for 500 years. Apparently Trevor had been in charge of Kathrine the last time the ceremony was supposed to be performed, he fell for her and helped her escape. Classic Kathrine.
"What do they want the Doppleganger for in the first place?" Stefan asked.
"To break the sun and moon curse, the moonstone seals it, the blood of the doppelgänger breaks it." Elena said quietly.
Damon and Stefan's heads both snapped in my direction, while I avoided all eye contact with Elena, "What?" She asked.
"They need a special kind of witch to break the spell."
Her eyes opened wide, "You?"
"Someone like me." Panic spread across her face, "Don't worry, we're going to figure all of this out, we're not going to let anyone sacrifice you and I certainly won't be the one doing it." She nodded but looked unconvinced and went back to having a moment with Stefan. As we crossed the border into to Mystic Falls I nudged Damon, "I need my car can you drop me off at the school?"
"No." He said shortly.
"I have stuff I was supposed to do today before our little field trip."
"Like what?" He asked.
It was a lie, I had no plans after school but I did have plans now, "Like, talk to Bonnie." Not a lie.
"About?"
"Witch business, you wouldn't understand." I said with a wave of my hand.
"Hmm." He said turning into the school parking lot and pulling up next to my car.
"I'll call you later." I said as I got out of the car.
He gave me and annoyed look as he watched me get in and start the truck pulling out and heading to the Lockwood's while I went the opposite way to Sheila's. Bonnie's dad was out of town which meant she'd be there, the living room light was on and her Prius was in the driveway. I knocked lightly, when she opened the door, her expression was shocked, "Oh my God are you ok?"
I looked down, thinking I probably should have changed before I came over here, "Oh this?" I laughed, "Yeah, I had little accident when we went to get Elena, who's fine, we're all home safe."
Bonnie opened the door so I could come it, "Why are you here? If it was just to tell me Elena was ok you could have just called."
I sighed, "You might want to sit down." She did and I took a place next to her on the couch and let her in on today's events right up to the part where Elena would have to die to break the curse.
"So what do you need from me?" She asked.
"When your Grams was still helping me she let me borrow a couple grimoires, one of them had a spell in it. It's a binding spell, but I think it's one of those only a Bennett can do it things."
"You want me to bind your magic?"
"Oh god no." I shook my head, "no I want you to spell this." I said pulling a small silver bracelet out of my pocket, "I need to be able to put it on and take it off at will, if I'm right a witch wouldn't be able to track my magic if I was wearing that. They would actually need something of mine and if no one knows who I am…"
"Then no one knows where to look." Bonnie nodded, "I think I know the spell you're talking about. But if it's this much trouble why not just relinquish it all together?" She got up to grab a book and began thumbing through it.
"Because I'd rather need it and not have it then the alternative, these vampires today ran for a long time just for letting Kathrine go. Can't imagine they would take to kindly to having to find another witch."
"Got it, give me the bracelet." She said holding her hand out. I raised my eyebrow at her, "You can read the spell if you don't trust me."
I threw her the bracelet, "Don't tell anyone about this." She nodded, we'd reached an agreement to help each other I knew she wasn't going to mess it up, especially if it kept Elena out of danger. Bonnie took the bracelet and walked to the table, setting up a couple of candles and a salt ring. She dropped the bracelet in the ring and said the short incantation, the candles flared up a little before she picked the bracelet up and put it in my hand, "Done."
I snapped the clasp around the same wrist that Damon's bracelet was on, I wanted to keep the important stuff together, I blew out one of the candles and tried to magically relight it, failing. I quickly took the bracelet off and was able to light the candle, "Thank you." I said clipping the bracelet back on and walking towards the door.
"Hey do you wanna crash on the couch tonight, I'm sure you don't want to go home and talk to your sister and I bet Damon's going to hover." She said smiling.
"Oh you know he's going to hover."
"Best place to avoid that, no vampires allowed."
"You know what, yeah that would be great Bonnie thank you."
While Bonnie went and found some extra blankets I sent a text to Jenna complete with a picture of me in Bonnie's house so she knew I was telling the truth. I sent a second text to Damon, " I'm safe." And turned off my phone.
When I woke up the next morning Bonnie was still asleep, not wanting to overstay my welcome I folded up the blankets I'd used and turned my phone back on, no surprises I had a couple of voicemails from Damon, I'd check them in the truck, I grabbed my bag and locked the door behind me. Once I stepped off the porch I heard a caw of a crow in one of the trees above me, "Morning Ottis." I mumbled as I walked to my truck.
"Who's Ottis?" Damon asked from behind me.
"It's what I call the crow you use to stalk me." I turned around and kept walking backwards, "Yeah you're not slick." I turned back around to face my car.
"You know it's never the same crow." He said zipping in front of me stopping me from getting to my door.
"Doesn't stop me from calling it the same name. So to what do I owe the passive aggressive stalking this morning?" I asked attempting to push past him.
"I'm safe? After the day we had that's all I get?" He huffed. "Then you turned your phone off."
I held out my phone screen showing him the mere 20% charge my phone had, "I don't have a charger, it's at your house."
"You could have given me more than I'm safe." He moved allowing me to get to my truck, "You need to come to the house."
"Why?"
"Because Rose showed up with some rather interesting information."
"I might could be persuaded to join the conversation." I said as I opened my door, he eyed me, "Relax I will go straight there."
"Good Elena is on her way."
Damon followed me the short way from Bonnie's to the boarding house, I watched him as I got out of my truck. When we met up at the door his arm reached around my back and he led me inside, I sat down next to Elena on the couch, "Ok so we're both here what's this about?" Elena asked annoyed, I'm guessing her and Stefan's moment in the car yesterday had been just that a moment.
"You two." Stefan said walking back in the room with rose in toe.
"Rose, I presume." I glanced at my ring, blue but that doesn't mean my bracelet wasn't messing with it.
"You must be the twin." Rose said sitting across from us.
"I prefer Alexis." I smirked.
"Right, so you need to understand that I only have what I've picked up over the years and I'm not too sure what's real and what's not. Klaus I know is real."
"Who the hell is Klaus?" I asked.
"An original, he's a legend." Damon said putting his hands on my shoulders
"From the first generation of vampires." Stefan added quietly.
"Like Elijah?" Elena asked.
"Elijah is a kitten compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal, The big bad." Rose replied. "I'm going to assume by that magic show you put on yesterday you're the witch Trevor and I were supposed to be looking for."
"You would assume correct." I replied glancing at my new bracelet.
"Wait so the oldest vampire in history of all time is coming after us?" Elena asked.
"Just you for now but once he realizes what your sister is he will come for both of you."
"Then we're going to need to make sure he doesn't find out, presuming everything you're saying is true." Damon said suddenly.
"It is." Rose replied quickly.
"And not just because you don't want me to kill you."
"I'm not, Look believe me or not if your not afraid of Klaus you're and idiot."
"Look we killed Elijah, so no one even knows you exist Elena." Stefan said.
"That you know of." Rose disputed.
"Not helping." I snapped. "I've already put something in play to keep me off anyone's radar, so we just need to worry about keeping Elena safe."
"Klaus is determined he won't stop until he gets what he wants."
"Alright we're shaking, you've made your point." Damon said finally letting go of my shoulders.
Elena looked at me, "You ready?"
"For?" I said cockin my eyebrow.
"School." She said getting up, Stefan followed her towards the door, "Hold on, I'll grab my stuff and come with you." He said.
"I know where it is." She snapped. She looked back to me, "Are you coming?" She asked.
"Clearly I need to change and shower, can you just swing by and grab my homework for me?"
Elena was out the door when I got off the couch, "Your little plan to stay off the radar wouldn't have anything to do with this new jewelry your sporting would it." He asked tugging at my wrist.
"It might." I sighed, "It's a binding bracelet, with everything that's going on, my heads not right. I'm scared I'm going to lose it and hurt someone."
"So what does that mean?"
"It means, while it's on I can't do magic but also while it's on a witch looking for me would have to have something of mine to do a spell, can't find someone if you don't know who you're looking for."
"But when it's off you're normal."
"Normal's overrated." I smirked, my phone vibrated in my pocket, I had a text from Elena, I'm going to find real answers meet me at the tomb."
"Who's that?"
"Mind ya business." I said as I walked towards the stairs.
I showered and changed quickly, when I walked out of the closet a blur pinned me against the door, "Now what? He smirked, I knew what he was trying to do. He wanted to scare me into not wearing the bracelet.
"I yell for my stalker boyfriend." I smirked.
His smirk turned into annoyance, "I'm serious Alexis, you can sit there and be all smug because you know I'm not going to hurt you."
"No, you won't but you are definitely turning me on right now." I almost immediately regretted my smart ass remark and added, "I'll ask Alaric to teach me how to defend myself, will that make you feel better?" I pushed against his wrists but he didn't let me go, "No." He said.
"Well the bracelet stays so figure something else out." He made a face but dropped it, "Can you let me go so I can go to school now?"
He let me go and stepped back, "I'd feel better if you let me help you, I mean who better the a vampire to teach you how to fight vampires."
"Deal. I'll see you later." I kissed him quickly and walked out.
15 minutes later and I was pulling up next to Caroline's car, I made the short trip through the woods, stopping at the entrance of the tomb. Caroline was making her way out, "You're not staying with her?" I asked.
"No I have to distract Stefan, oh don't tell me I have to distract Damon too." She whined.
"No I can handle Damon." I said rolling my eyes. "How's Tyler?"
"He's, confused. And scared, I might have told him I'm a vampire."
"What the fuck Caroline." I shook my head, "Don't tell Damon he'll kill you both."
"I know." She groaned, she started to walk away, "Hey keep Elena out of that tomb."
"That's the plan." I said before stepping down the stone stairs.
Elena was standing a couple of feet from the entrance with a bag showing Kathrine the goodies she'd brought as payment for information.
"Well, well look who joined the party." Kathrine's voice croaked from inside the tomb. Seeing them both together was creepy, I'd never been an exact double of Elena not even when we were younger, you could still distinctly tell us apart in photos, this made my skin crawl.
"Wow Kathrine you look like shit." I said taking a step towards the invisible barrier.
"You two can have your pissing contest later, We want you to tell us about Klaus." Elena demanded, "I brought you this." She pulled a book out of the bag, I recognized it as the Petrova book from Isobel's research. She tossed the book over the line and stepped back crossing her arms, "It says the family line ended with you but that's obviously not true."
"What you thought bringing me some family heirloom would make me open up?" Kathrine picked up the book.
"I also brought you this." Elena pulled a small up and a bottle of blood from her bag, I smirked impressed with her thoughtfulness. Kathrine would be starving at this point, right on cue as Elena stepped forward Kathrine slammed herself into the barrier.
"I bet desiccation hurts," I said taking the bottle from Elena and pouring just a little in the plastic cup, "How long does it take for your body to shut down?" I wafted my hand sending the smell her way, veins crawled under her eyes and I smirked.
"I see the Petrova Fire is genetic." She slid down the wall and sat in the floor. I passed the cup to Elena who slid it to her with a stick. Kathrine tilted back the cup sliding it back, "More?" Elena asked. I handed the bottle to Elena. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket I checked and was Damon's name flash across the screen, Nope. I silenced it putting it back in my pocket.
"I met Klaus in 1492, after I'd left Bulgaria. Well was thrown out." Kathrine said taking another drink.
"Thrown out?" Elena asked.
"I was disowned by my family, your true ancestors. I had a baby out of wedlock and those kinds of indiscretions were not tolerated." Kathrine replied.
"It was kept a secret?"
"Mmhm the baby was ripped from my arms at birth and given away. I went to England, I quickly learned to become English, I caught the eye of a young nobleman, Klaus. I was quite smitten, until I found out what he was."
My phone vibrated again, if he calls again I'll answer it. Three times is clearly an emergency.
"Once I found out what he wanted me for I ran like hell, Trevor helped me, he led Elijah and the others away and found me a safe house. Well, he thought it would be safe, Rose had other plans."
"What did he want you for?" I asked.
"He wanted to drain every last drop of blood from my body." She paused looking up at me, "Klaus is going to appreciate irony once he finds out about you."
"Guess a certain little psycho need to keep her mouth shut then." I snapped and there I was the third phone call, I looked to Elena, "He's not going to stop till I answer." She nodded and I headed up the steps. "What?" I snapped.
"Where are you?" He asked.
"School." I replied, I heard a crunch behind me I quickly pulled at the clip on my bracelet. I whipped around with my hands in front of me just in time to see Damon fly into a tree. I clamped my hands over my mouth, "Oh shit, I'm sorry." I said rushing over to him.
"Liar." He grunted getting up.
"I really didn't mean it." I said clipping the bracelet back on.
"This is clearly not the school."
"Oh." I said guiltily.
"Yeah. What are you doing out here?" He asked.
"Elena, she wanted answers about Klaus." I looked around, "How did you even know I was here?"
"Ottis." He said shrugging, he laced his fingers through mine, "Come on we're going on a safer field trip."
"But Elena…"
"She can fill you in later, we're going to meet one of Rose's friends in Richmond, see what we can learn about these originals." He tugged at my hand and I followed.
As we walked up to a black SUV I raised my eyebrow, "Not everyone can do sunlight." Damon said clearly talking about Rose. Damon opened the door for me I hopped in the back seat, making myself comfortable. Once Damon's got in the front seat I spoke, "So Rose, Kathrine was just telling me a riveting story about you." I said smirking.
"You clearly spend too much time around vampires to try and taunt one." She replied looking at me in the mirror.
"While I don't deny that at all, she said Trevor sent her to what he thought was a safe house but you had other plans. Since Damon has this incessant need to ruin my fun I was hoping you can finish the story."
She sighed, "Fine, Trevor helped her escape and sent her to the cabin we were staying in, it belonged to an old woman who we had compelled to not let anyone in but us. Kathrine was frantic, banging on the door, once I heard Trevor's name I had the owner let her in, she explained that she had learned about Klaus's plans to sacrifice her to break the curse and she stole the moon stone on her way out. I panicked and locked her up even then it was well known if you crossed Klaus you were as good as dead."
"That's how she got the moonstone in the first place." I said quietly.
Rose nodded, "I locked her up, I was going to take her and that bloody stone back to Klaus and beg for mercy for both Trevor and I."
"You didn't get a chance to take her back did you?"
"No she'd gotten a hold of a dagger and stabbed herself, she begged to die rather than be taken back to Klaus. I gave her my blood to heal her and then Trevor came in, I was gone just long enough, she hung herself. Klaus needed her to be human, she killed the old woman to complete her transformation and that's when all the running started."
"Wow." I said leaning back, Damon Damon didn't look surprised to hear Kathrine had ended it herself.
"Now you." Rose said, "You seem awfully normal, I always pictured Elementals as mindless, well zombies."
"I have never had the desire to eat brains, or any other part of a human for that matter." I looked at Damon, who appeared to be holding back a laugh.
"No I didn't mean that, I just always heard you come back with nothing memory wise."
"I remember process, like driving a car, riding a bike and taking care of myself. I just don't remember the people, anything sentimental and moments that should have shaped my life are just poof."
"Sounds a little extreme."
"Who are you telling?" I said with a sigh, I pulled out my phone and let Elena know I'd been kidnapped and I wanted to talk later and compare our stories. "So you and Trevor didn't know anything about me?"
"No we got a tip about Kathrine and the tomb from a friend a few weeks ago along with the location of the Doppelgänger, we knew Klaus would need a special kind of witch but they aren't easy to find."
"Then I guess the only question is who Kathrine told." Damon said.
"She didn't tell anyone." I replied.
"How do you know?"
"Because if we're as hard to find as Rose says then that's something she's going to keep in her pocket until she need it."
A little while later I started to recognize some of the buildings from my last trip to Richmond, I had a bad feeling about this trip though. Rose pulled into a parking garage off of the main road, "Back entrance, nice." Damon said.
"See the appeal." Rose replied as we got out of the car. "Not all of us can have fancy Day rings."
"How well do you know this Slater guy? Are you sure he's even here?"
"I've known him for a long time and he's always here."
Damon rushed around pinning Rose to the wall, I unclipped my bracelet not sure what he was planning. I noticed my ring was still blue without the magical interference, "Damon stop!" I yelled
He turned his head towards me, it was enough of a distraction that Rose got the upper hand, I flinched as Damon's back hit the car, her forearm in his throat, "Listen to your girlfriend, I'm older than you and stronger." She let him go, "You can trust me."
She walked a couple steps ahead of us, Damon quietly asked, "Do you trust her?"
"Yes." I said simply. I didn't have any reason not to at this point, but I wasn't putting my bracket back on until this was over. We walked into a well lit coffee shop, the whole front wall was windows, "Umm." I said.
"Double paned and tempered, UV rays can't penetrate. One of the best things about this place." Rose replied walking up to the counter.
"That and the free WiFi." A gentleman behind the register added. Rose reaches over and gave him a hug, "I saw you drive by, what's up?"
"It's a long story Slater but I want you to meet-"
"Damon Salvatore turned 1864 in Mystic Falls by Kathrine Pierce, a.k.a. Katerina Petrova." He said beaming.
"Whoa." I whispered. Slater looked at me, "And I'm not sure who you are." His eyes narrowed.
"Human groupie." I replied as Damon chuckled.
"Your human but not a groupie, you're the twin." He said I flinched, calm down he said twin not witch. Slater's attention went back to rose, "So I take it I was right about the tomb?"
"Yes you were right thanks for the tip."
Slater smiled towards Damon, "It's nice to meet you," He paused taking in Damon's expression, "or not, Rose what's going on?"
We sat at a table so rose could break the bad newsroom about Trevor and the doppelgänger trade off, "You're sure Elijah is dead?" Slater asked.
"Super Dead." Damon replied.
"Trevor was a good man he helped me on a dissertation once. I was schooling for my psych phd."
"Slater's been in school since 74." Rose said.
"Since I turned. I have 18 degrees 3 masters and 4 PhDs." Slater said proudly.
"Why?" I asked.
"Why not? You wouldn't understand. What better way to spend eternity then to learn everything."
Maybe I didn't understand, I'd only been thinking about up until my birthday, at least since Damon dropped his New York plan on me.
"We need your help Slater." Rose said gently, "If someone wanted to get in touch with Klaus how would they do it?"
"Craigslist." He replied.
"Seriously?" Damon asked.
"Seriously, I answered ad that got sent to a guy that knows a guy that knows Elijah, who's dead and that's where my connection ends."
"Helpful." Damon grumbled, "Here is what I don't get, Elijah could walk in the sun which obviously means the originals knew about the daylight rings, so why does he care about breaking the curse."
"To stop the werewolves from breaking it."
"But werewolves are extinct." Rose said.
"Not exactly." I said.
"I'd heard a rumor-" Slater started.
"Not a rumor." Damon confirmed.
"Mystic Falls? Wow this place sounds great I really need to visit it sometime."
"Yeah it's amazing, is there a way to stop the curse from being broken?"
"What do you mean?" He asked genuinely confused.
"If we make the moonstone useless could it stop the curse from being broken?"
"Well yeah theoretically."
"How?" Damon said leaning in.
"Why would I tell you I'm not looking to piss off an original and lose my chance at walking in the sun." Slater said angrily.
"You wanna walk in the sun? I can make that happen."
Slater didn't have time to respond, everything happened so fast. Damon pushed me out of my chair and was on top of me as shards of glass flew from the now open window. I heard people screaming and then it registered, I hit his chest, "Rose, get rose." He jumped up grabbing something from a table and covering Rose up, I rushed ahead out into the hall towards the parking garage. He carried her to the car setting her in the back seat before turning to me, "Are you ok?"
I nodded, he looked back to Rose, "Who was behind that?"
"I don't know." She replied, "Where's Slater?"
"I don't know Iowa by now probably."
"He wouldn't do this, he's a good person and a friend."
"Then who did?"
"Klaus! Don't you get it we're all dead." She started crying. For the first time I knew for sure I wasn't going to be able to hide from this, I was either going to have to do the ritual or die. The overwhelming feeling of dread washed over me, my heart sped up, I yelled out in frustration and lights in the parking garage started popping one after another.
Damon ran over and grabbed my face making me look at him, "Focus on me." I locked my eyes with his and the commotion I created stopped. I reached in my bag and pulled it the silver chain wrapping it around my wrist again. He slung his arm over my shoulder and helped me in the truck, Rose was healed enough to drive so he climbed back in the front seat.
Finally making it out of town, I was sitting with my back against the door and my legs in the seat, fiddling with my phone, "You should put your seatbelt on." Damon said from the front.
"You don't have yours on." I said not looking up.
"I'm dead."
"Evidently so am I." I said quietly.
We were almost to Mystic Falls when I finally broke the uncomfortable tension, "Damon?" He turned around in his seat, "Can you have Rose drop me off at my truck?" He nodded and I added, "What are the chances you wanna make sure the human gets some dinner?" I needed a distraction.
He smiled, "I keep forgetting." He joked, obviously getting my hint and relieving some of the tension. He directed Rose to the parking lot where my truck was. Once we stopped he got out and opened the door for me as she pulled away I pushed Damon up against the door of my truck, he let me. I planted my lips on his and one of his hands tangled in my hair while the other arm wrapped around my waist pulling me closer. He pulled away after a moment, "You can't talk like that, we're going to fix this."
"And if we can't?" I asked pushing away. "If Klaus gets Elena, I have three options, do the spell, refuse and die or run. Kathrine's been doing it long enough can't be that hard." I kicked at the ground.
"Then we run." He said stepping directly in front of me, "But it's not going to make it that far."
"Denial sounds fun." I said sarcastically.
"Stop talking." Damon demanded.
"Wha-" was all I got out before he quickly picked me up crashing his lips on mine. This time it was me against the truck, my legs wrapped around his waist. I opened my mouth and he deepened our kiss, one of his hands gripped at my ass holding me up while the other ran lightly over my thigh and under the hem of my skirt. I was internally jumping for joy at my wardrobe choice this morning. I pushed my hips towards Damon's, he let out a low growl as he started kissing down my neck. His hand moved from underneath my skirt and behind my back holding me against him as we moved to the back of the truck. In what seemed one quick motion he had the hatch open and I was on my back, Damon between my legs, his erection pressed up against the thin material of my skirt and panties. He leaned towards me kissing me again, he tugged at my shirt and leaned up and pulled it off. I shuddered under him and he moved his mouth downward, his hands massaged my breasts through my bra.
I circled my hips against his trying to create the friction I desperately needed, he ran his tongue through the valley of my breasts and pushed the black lace bra up. Damon swirled his tongue around one nipple, sucking it into his mouth, I moaned his name and tangled my fingers in his hair. I felt his fingers lightly run up my thigh leaving goosebumps in their wake, he trailed them over my panties, drawing and invisible line up and down. My hand tightened in his hair and he smiled against my skin as he kissed his way across my chest, I was getting wetter by the second. Damon moved my panties to the side rubbing his thumb over my clit, my eyes rolled back and I arched my hips towards him. He ran a finger through my folds before inserting it into my core, kissing back up my neck, eventually bringing his lips back to mine. He inserted a second finger and I moaned into his mouth, digging my nails into the back of his neck. He moved his fingers faster and I bucked my hips to meet his thrusts, his thumb put a little more pressure on my clit, "Oh Fuck!" I yelled as my pussy began to spasm, Damon kept working his fingers prolonging the experience.
He removed his fingers and stood up, giving me a moment to breath, "How is it you're still fully clothed?" I asked shakily.
"I got excited." He shrugged, holding his hand out for me to take. Once I did he pulled me up kissing me again, I slid my hand under the waistband of his pants and pumped his dick. His head fell back and I quietly said, "We need to fix that." Before pulling my hand back using it to unbutton his shirt pushing it open and then moving to his jeans. They fell to the ground and I wrapped my fingers around his erection, pumping it slowly as I kissed my way down his chest. When I got to my knees I circled the tip of his dick with my tongue, licking my lips before opening my mouth I took him in as deep as I could using my hand to pick up the slack. I found my rhythm and his hands clenched in my hair, he only let me continue for a few minutes before pulling me up.
He spun me around pressing my back against his chest, sliding his hand down my stomach and over my hips, running his fingers through my folds again before pushing two inside me. I gasped as he curled his fingers rubbing my g spot when he moved his fingers. Damon removed his fingers and pushed me forward so I was on my forearms bent over the bumper. He rubbed his dick along my slit, I groaned when Damon buried himself in to me. He thrust into me, digging his fingers into my hips building up a rigorous pace that had me writhing under him. I heard him groan as his thumb found my clut rubbing small circles, my mind when blank as my pussy contracted around his dick, he moaned out my name as he reached his own release a few seconds later.
He pulled out of me and pulled up his jeans, he was buttoning his shirt back up as he sat down, I grabbed my shirt, adjusting my bra before pulling it back on, "Quicky in the woods, Damon Salvatore I'd say your corrupting me." I said laughing.
"You started it."
Damon's Pov
I'd tried to convince Alexis to stay at the boarding house mostly because I wanted to keep an eye on her but she refused, something about wanting to know what else Elena found out from Kathrine. I'd walked home from her house ignoring the tugging feeling to feed on a jogger on the way.
I walked into the library where Rose was pouring herself a drink, "I just got off the phone with Slater, he said he wasn't involved today and doesn't want to be involved from now on. Apparently if you can get the moonstone to a witch she'll know what to do."
"I'll show it to Alexis, maybe Bonnie." I nodded
"Your girl, knows how to mark her territory." She nodded in my direction, "Missed a button." She laughed.
"She's not a sharer." I said grabbing my own glass.
"You're nothing like how I thought you'd be."
"And how's that?"
"I'd heard stories of the big bad Damon Salvatore, dropping humans in New York like it was his job."
"It kind of was." I said shrugging.
"And here you are completely wrapped up in her."
I poured another drink, "I guess I just found what I want to do with my eternity." I took a sip and headed upstairs for the night.
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