A/N - Hello again my lovelies. Miss me?
So it's half term and I have some free time between revision, so I gave in. I just can't not write.
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Also, I'd just like to say that I'm not responsible for my new cover picture. I wanted to replace it, and so I searched up on Google images and found it. So if the person who did make it is out there, I'd just like to say how much I love, and if you're not happy with me using it, I will completely understand and take it off. I'm not pretending to have made it, or taking any of the credit except for obviously the title in in. Yeah.
That being said, enjoy! Hope to see you in four week, when I am finally free! :D
It was 5;30 in the morning, and a small portion of the New Orleans coven were gathered around a small stone table holding the unconscious doppelganger in the cemetery.
"I still think this is a bad idea," replied a brunette witch.
"This is Katerina Petrova we're talking about!" Hissed the blonde witch. "This is the girl that Klaus tracked for over 500 years to get rid of. He'll support it, even if he does find out. This bitch killed my sister. She has to pay."
"She doesn't dress like Katherine, though," noted a short witch near the front.
"Of course not, you idiot," the blonde replied. "If she dressed like the slut she is, she'd be caught in an instant."
She turned back to Elena's limp body, and held her hands out over her torso, palms down, chanting a spell to keep Elena sedated. "That should keep her down until noon." She turned to her friends. "And so it begins."
"Where could she be, Nik?" Fretted Caroline as she paced the carpet in their bedroom, her thin robe and nightgown fanning out behind her after every turn. "She would've called. She's meant to be staying with us."
Klaus sighed, and put down his sketchbook. "Is she not just staying in another room? Maybe she felt some obscure pull towards Rebekah's, or worse, Elijah's end of the house?"
She glared at him. "Nik, this is serious. She's my best friend - she's like a sister to me."
"Okay, fine. I'll inform Elijah of the missing doppl- Elena, and tell him to search around. I'll let Kol know as well, just to be safe. You and I, however, have a date to the Bayou with Marcel to talk to the werewolves, remember? So get dressed. We leave in an hour." He shot her a cheeky grin. "Don't fret, love, we'll find your friend." He turned and strode out of the room.
Caroline smiled and shook her head. Despite the fact that she was worried about her friend, she knew Elijah would take good care of her, and she did need to talk to the werewolves about their arrangements for the next full moon.
"Elijah, I need you to do me a favour."
Elijah looked up from the thick leather-bound book that lay open on his lap. "Don't you always, Niklaus?"
Klaus sighed. "I'm inclined to believe you'll like this one." Elijah looked up in interest. "You see, a -shall we say friend?- of mine has gone missing, disappeared off the streets of New Orleans last night. Caroline, Marcel and I have to go and meet the werewolves, so if you could go and track her down for me, it would be appreciated. Caroline is very worried about her."
"Brother, I have better things to do than to chase down your little pets. If you want someone to do your dirty work, I suggest you ask someone else."
"Oh, but I thought she was your little pet. I mean, you always did have a thing for Petrova Doppelgangers."
Elijah stood up so fast that his book went flying to the floor and lay open on the ground with the cover facing up. Normally, Elijah condoned any mistreatment or damage to his books, but his concentration was focused solely on Klaus. "What."
Klaus smiled at his older brother. "It seems Elena arrived here yesterday evening, and came to our party. She was meant to be staying with us, but she left soon after and hasn't been seen or heard of since."
Elijah's jaw clenched. "Fine, Brother. I'll do it. But for Elena, not for you." He walked stiffly out of the room, and Klaus smirked, picking up the book from its suffering state on the floor.
Yep, Elena's stay in New Orleans was definitely going to be one to remember.
Elijah strode down the high street in the compound, straightening out his jacket collar as he walked. All he could think about was finding Elena (and then going home and punching Klaus for his unwillingness to find her).
It was then that his mobile started buzzing in his inside pocket, and he groped around distractedly before pulling it out and holding it to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Elijah? Oh thank God! I've been trying to get through to someone for over an hour. Davina's here, she's in an awful state about this girl she says she's lost - Ellie, was it? Eleanor?"
"Put her on the phone," Elijah demanded, and listened as Sophie's calm but confused tone changed into that of a scared sixteen-year-old, her voice weak with worry.
"I'm so sorry, Elijah-"
"What happened?" Elijah asked through his teeth, trying not let his emotions run loose.
"I met this girl at your party yesterday, Elena... She said she needed to talk to you, but I lost her, and then she was attacked-"
"Attacked? Think very carefully about your next words, Davina," growled Elijah down the phone.
Davina gulped. "She was okay, I fed her some vampire blood and she was fine. Then she wanted to go for a walk, so I sent Josh with her. I don't know what happened after that. I can't get through to him."
Elijah wanted to shout at her for losing Elena in a city in which no one knew her, especially when she had the face of at least four people before her. He also wanted to know how the hell she managed to get vampire blood, but he figured she must've made her vampire friend feed Elena some of his blood. "Keep an eye out for her. Anyone here could mistake her for Katerina, and no good can come of that." He ended the phone call as he spotted a young lad sitting on a bench near the voodoo shop, rubbing his neck and wincing.
Bingo.
"Hey!" He called out to him, and sped up so that he flashed over to where he sat, and sat down next to him. "You're Davina's friend, Josh?"
Josh nodded. "This is about Elena, isn't it?"
Elijah's eyes narrowed. "Start talking."
"I don't know much," he started. "All I know is that we were walking, and then my neck snapped. I don't know what happened after that, but I woke up lying in the middle of the street about five-ish, and Elena was nowhere to be found."
"How did your neck snap?"
Josh thought for a moment. "I think it was that woman."
"Woman?"
"Yeah, this blonde physco came up to Elena and started accusing her of killing her sister. Then she waved her hand, and that's all I remember."
Elijah gripped the bench so tightly that the metal began to squish in his palm, but he didn't care. He knew exactly where to find Elena. He got up, and walked off down the street without another word.
"Elijah?" Called Josh. "Elijah, man, where are you going?"
But Elijah didn't turn back.
"Sisters, the sun is at its peak," informed a redheaded witch as she walked into the crypt.
"Good. Then we can begin," said the blonde, and gather everyone to form a circle around Elena, who was still oblivious to everything. Taking a small but scary-looking blade, she ran it deeply across her palm, and then held her wound over Elena's forehead, clenching her hand to make the blood drip onto Elena's face. She then closed her eyes and grabbed the hands of the two nearest witches, and then they all began to chant in unison, joining hands and forming a circle around the body.
"Excuse me, ladies," came a voice from the hallway, and Elijah stepped into the crypt. "I do hope I'm not interrupting."
The blonde witch broke the chain and whipped around, glaring at Elijah. "Actually, we were doing you a favour. I found Katerina Petrova wandering around the Compound last night, so I thought I'd get rid of her, permanently, and save you the trouble."
"That wasn't your call to make," Elijah growled back. "And, Kaitlyn, was it? If you want to take your anger out, might I suggest you don't do it on an innocent girl?"
"She's no innocent!" Kaitlyn hissed back. "She murdered my sister!"
"And that is understandable," Elijah said. "Katerina has killed hundreds of people's sisters over the years. This girl, however, has not."
The witch still looked angry, but a wave of confusion quickly swept over her.
"Allow me to explain," Elijah added, striding forward to stand by Elena's head. "This is Elena Gilbert, Katerina's doppelganger and a good friend of Caroline's. I assume you know the story of the Petrova doppelgangers?"
The witches looked shocked.
"Next time, you should check before you start trying to kill people who were never involved in your business to begin with," he finished, tucking a stay piece of hair behind Elena's ear. "Now." He turned around to look at Kaitlyn. "I believe that one bad turn deserves another, don't you?" And with that, he reached out and snapped her neck like a twig, letting her body fall unceremoniously to the ground.
"As for you," he said to the other witches. "You have a choice. You can leave here, now, and as long as you make no further attempt to harm Miss Gilbert, you'll be pardoned. Or you can resist, and you'll meet a similar fate as your friend. I'm sure Caroline will think of a suitable punishment for you once she hears of your part in her best friend's kidnapping. Choose wisely."
The witches didn't hesitate; ten seconds later the crypt was empty minus Elijah and a sleeping Elena. He sighed, and scooped her up into his arms, tucking her head in the crook of his arm, so it wouldn't move around on her neck, which was, unbeknownst to him, almost healed. He had no clue that it had been broken, or that she was in transition, yet.
"Let's go home, Elena," he soothed, and then with a flash, the crypt was empty.
Thanks to you guys, I'm now on 99 follows, 56 favourites and 4, 820 views! This is amazing! Thank you so much!
And since there's so much I wanna say to you guys, I've decided to write you each a reply :) But this is, in Emma Swan's words, 'a one-time thing', so don't expect this every week ;)
(BTW So much for 'one-time thing', did any of you see OUAT 3X21+22? That was BEAUTIFUL! :'D)
bulldozed88 - Yay! I know I'm such a bad updater, but I do love the feeling of updating, and of course waking up to such lovely reviews! I'm this is classed as blackmail, but I think it's acceptable, isn't it? Oh well ;) How did you guess about Elijah? I think my beta-ing you has given you the ability to see into my mind! No ripping out hearts :( but I'll give you a spoiler: since I love that move so much, Elijah'll be doing some of that later in the story :) Thank you again! Oh, and I hope you got the latest chapter of 'The Original Wife', I sent it back earlier today :)
Loving-The-Originals - I know! Don't worry, she'll be okay. I mean, no one's going to be willing to try and get past Elijah to get to her now, are they?
JessiePie6 - Yep! I mean, Elijah can think it was Josh's all he wants, but we all know whose blood really turned her ;)
Lauren Lydia Jane Mikaelson - Thank you! I can't either :) Elijah's going to be getting pretty mad over these next few chapters, especially when he finds out that not only did the witches kidnap Elena, they also killed her, and now she's in transition. It's going to be so fun to write! And by the way, I really like your penname!
Emowyen - I know! Downfalls of being a doppleganger ;) I do love Katherine though. Maybe I'll bring her to New Orleans briefly later. I'll try and update again as soon as I can :)
Silv3rfox - Whoa, nice name! Thank you! I can't wait to write more :) Nope, Elena is dead, unfortunately, but she's coming back as a vampire, so it's all good, except that Elijah will totally freak out over Elena's not-optional turning, and go on a rampage, *hint hint*. Should be fun to write :)
Shuuwai - Yeah... kind of an 'oh shit!' moment ;) And you're totally correct, by the way. The witch did die :) Reminds me of that song, except sung as 'witch you 'bout to die'. Sorry, I'm rambling here. I'll update soon, I promise.
morganclaire1 - Yes, fun times. Elena has now officially (in this fanfic) joined the ranks of the not-really-dead. I'll update Chapter 6 asap, I promise!
sourskittles6887 - nice name! I like sour skittles too :) I will!
XxNatratxX - Aww! I feel that way about some fics, so that totally touches my heart, thank you! I update as soon as I can, between revision :)
Fire Dolphin - Yep, it does. Elena's now officially in transition. As for your second questions. I'm afraid you'll just have to keep reading! As for her age, I don't actually know. Thank you for asking, I can't believe I hadn't though of that. I'm saying no younger than 20...I think she's finished college, although I've no idea when Americans finish college, since I'm British... do you mind helping me with this? Sorry, but thank you so much for asking. I have an idea, but I'll get back to you on that, I promise :)