"Hello Emily."Katherine said hoarsely, leaning heavily against the wall while looking between her two Doppelgangers."Hello Elena."Emily looked at Katherine with narrowed eyes, missing the look of adoration that Katherine shot at Elena, while Elena crossed her arms, looking bored but if you looked closely, you could see that she was concerned for Katherine."Have you come to watch me wither away?"Katherine asked sarcastically before her gaze shifted to the only person who was able to open the entrance."Goodbye, Caroline."Katherine gritted out, glaring at her.
Emily looked at Caroline."As long as we stay on the other side of the door, she can't hurt us."Caroline's hard gaze shifted from Katherine to Emily."Please."Caroline huffed through her nose and left.
"We?"Elena echoed, raising an eyebrow at her twin, who looked back at her."You make it sound like I'm staying."
"Don't you want to know her story?"Emily asked Elena in a soft voice, so that Katherine couldn't hear them, and looked at her twin in confusion.
"Don't need to know what's already been told."Elena said calmly in a normal voice.
"She told you!? When!? And why didn't you tell me!?"Emily exclaimed, enraged at the fact that Elena already knew Katherine's story and didn't tell her or Stefan and Damon.
"It's not my story to tell, regardless of the fact that we're Family, and she told me the day she arrived in town."Elena stated before leaving her twin dumbfounded and Katherine smirking in amusement.
Elena headed back to her car and while she was walking, she remembered how she first met Katherine. It was shocking to say the least, considering the fact that while she knew about the Tomb Vampires and Katherine, she actually had no idea what Katherine looked like until they met.
"What the hell, Emily!?"Elena exclaimed, looking at her twin in shock and confusion.
Emily had grabbed her and pulled her into a spare room at the Lockwood Mansion. The reason why Elena was even at the Lockwood Estate, although she didn't want to be there because she and Tyler weren't friends, but she had a nice relationship with Carol, was because Richard Lockwood, who didn't like her because she was a Witch, was killed in the fire, that was for the Tomb Vampires, not that Elena knew until Jenna told her.
"We need to talk."Emily said softly as she looked at Elena.
Elena didn't notice the way Emily was looking at her, looking at her as if she adored the short haired brunette. Elena went to say that they'd talk later, only to freeze, finally noticing the look in Emily's eyes and also noticed the necklace around her neck. A Daylight Necklace.
"You're not Emily."Elena stated and looked at her new Vampire twin."Who are you and why do you look like me and my Sister?"Elena asked suspiciously.
"They didn't tell you."The Vampire said."Of course they didn't."She looked at Elena in amusement."I'm Katherine, Katherine Pierce."Elena looked at her with wide eyes before she glared and watched as Katherine doubled over, placing a hand over her head, in pain as Elena gave her an aneurysm."Stop, please! I don't want to hurt you!"Elena paused at the sincerity in Katherine's voice and let her stand up and look at her in awe."That was actually painful and I've been around for a long time, it takes a lot to hurt me."Katherine said, smirking at Elena while she crossed her arms and looked at Katherine suspiciously."You have the Petrova Fire and seems to burn brightly."Katherine stated, looking down at Elena's hands and saw the faint glow dying at the edges of her fingertips. Looking down at her hands, Elena didn't see whatever Katherine had seen and looked back up at her with pursed lips.
"What do you want?"Elena said cautiously.
"To talk. That's all I want to do."Katherine said and sat down on the couch and gestured for Elena to sit down. Walking over to the arm chair, Elena sat down while never taking her eyes off of Katherine."So, you're Elena. Pretty name, it means Shining Light or The Bright One in Greek, doesn't it?"
"This can't be what you want to talk to me about."Elena stated.
Katherine sighed and leaned back in her seat."You're right, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to talk to you about our Family History, your History. Your History as a Petrova Witch. Your Legacy."Katherine said firmly as she kept her eyes connected with Elena's.
"What about it?"Elena asked, eyebrows furrowed."Petrova Witch? Legacy?"
"You, my sweet Zornitsa, are my descendant and unlike your weak Twin, you're also a very Powerful Witch because not only are you a Firstborn Petrova Witch but you stole your Sister's Magic while you were still in your Mother's womb."Katherine stated and Elena blinked in confusion and shock.
"What?"Elena exclaimed."I know about Firstborn Magic, but I've never heard or read about twins stealing each others Magic Magic while they're still in their Mother's womb."
Katherine looked at her in amusement."That's because two Petrova Doppelgangers can't be born without one being Human and the other being something else."Katherine stated calmly."Two Doppelgangers like you and your weak Sister can't exist at the same time without taking something from the other. Because you were born first, you took your Sister Magic before she could be born. Without that Magic, she's just a boring Human."Katherine smirked when she called Emily a boring Human.
Elena glared and watched in silent satisfaction as blood started to dribble down Katherine's nose and from the corner of her eyes while she gritted her teeth in silent agony and gripped the arm of the couch. She and Emily might not get along but she was still Elena's Sister and she couldn't help but be loyal to her Sister.
"Start explaining, without insulting my Sister."Elena hissed out.
"Only if you stop doing that."Katherine gritted out and Elena stopped giving her a nose bleed and stopped the blood tears from rolling down Katherine's face."You really are it."Katherine breathed out and Elena raised an eyebrow at her."The Eternal Flame."Elena's eyes lit up in recognition."It flows through you. You are The Eternal Flame. But don't worry, I'll get to that part after I've told you everything else, but first, I have to tell you about something that concerns you and your Sister, well, mostly it concerns her and it will only concern you when she dies."
Elena leaned back in her seat, looking at Katherine in shock and confusion."Dies? What do you mean dies?"
"Sooner or later, the rest of the Supernatural World will find out about her, Elena."Katherine stated."And when they do, word will get to Klaus and he will come here with the intention of killing her in a sacrifice."Katherine explained in a rather cryptic way to Elena."Every five hundred years, Doppelgangers are born in our Bloodline, for one reason and one reason only. To be a Sacrifice in a Ritual. That's what we are. Doppelgangers. However, only one Doppelganger is to die."
"Emily."Elena stated weakly in realisation and Katherine nodded."Because she's Human."Elena added."Why? What Ritual?"
"Have you heard of the Sun and Moon Curse?"Elena's eyes widened."I'll take that as a yes. Question is, how?"Katherine asked."
"I read about it and Grams, Sheila Bennett, she told me about it."Elena said truthfully."How does the Doppelganger fit into the Sun and Moon Curse?"Elena asked in confusion."It talks about a Moonstone being used to break the Curse."
"Correction, the Moonstone is what binds the Curse, the Doppelganger is what breaks it by the Doppelganger being drained dry of blood."Katherine corrected her."But there's something you should know. This Sun and Moon Curse, it's fake."
"But there is a Curse though, right?"Elena said questionably.
"Correct, my smart Zornitsa, there is a Curse. But it's Klaus' Curse."Katherine stated.
"Who's Klaus?"Elena asked.
"A very old Vampire and is the reason I am who I am today."Katherine said gravely and Elena raised an eyebrow, telling her Ancestor to talk and she did, she told Elena everything and by the end of it, Elena was horrified and looked deeply disturbed.
"So, Klaus wants to kill Emily and awaken his Werewolf side and become a Hybrid, and when he does, he can create an army of Hybrids."
"Yes."Katherine said."And when he does, you'll be the last of the Petrova Bloodline, you will have everything."
"What do you mean?"Elena asked warily.
"It is said that when all but one of the members of the Petrova are dead, the last of the Petrova's will gain the powers of the Phoenixs, including Immortality."Katherine explained and Elena looked at her in shock.
"Immortal?"Elena said questionably."But what about you? Shouldn't you be Immortal because your Family is dead?"
"I became a Vampire before my Family was murdered."Katherine stated."Only my Daughter survived and she became Immortal..."Katherine trailed off and Elena caught on quickly.
"Until? There's a loophole, isn't there?"Elena stated and Katherine raised an eyebrow at her as if saying;'Is there?'."There's always a loophole. Nature would never truly allow us to be Immortal."
"True."Katherine said and smirked."The loophole is for you to have a child to continue the Petrova Bloodline. Without doing that, you'll be Immortal for a very long time."
"And alone."Elena added so softly under her breath that Katherine didn't hear her.
Elena was pulled out of her memory when her phone went off and she found herself in front of her car. Pulling her phone out, she saw that it was the School and Elena groaned, remembering that she was one of the School's contacts to know where her Siblings whereabouts were if they weren't at School. The reason why Elena was one of their contacts was because Elena didn't have to go to School because she took the Senior Exams months ago and passed them with flying colours, meaning she didn't have to continue School and was looking at Colleges, most likely further away from Mystic Falls, to go to and no one noticed, except Jenna.
Jenna was surprised but she had been expecting it to happen sooner or later with how much time Elena spent alone and never hanged out with anyone unless she had to, and with Sheila no longer with them, Elena thought that it was finally time to stop making weak excuses about having to help look after her Siblings and denying the fact that she could her phone, Elena told the School that Emily was sick before hanging up.
"The things I do for her and Jeremy and I don't get a single thank you."Elena muttered under her breath before she got in her car and drove back to her house.