Hey guys, thank you all so much for the wonderful reviews. I'm glad people are enjoying the story. I've been asked if Katie and Elena are identical twins. There are only two differences. Katie has a slightly lighter skin tone and she has a birthmark on her hand. I've also been asked what happened to Katherine's sister. Don't worry. It will be explained in this chapter. Anyway on with the story.

It was the day after Katie and her sister, Elena, had been kidnapped by Rose and Trevor. Katie lay in bed thinking about what had happened. When she heard the story about the Originals, she freaked out thinking her and her sister were going to be killed but when Elijah made his appearance, she felt a calm wash over her. She couldn't explain it but when she saw him, she felt safe. A knock on the door and her sister's voice brought her out of thought. "Katie, are you awake?"

"Yeah come in." She said sitting up in bed.

Elena came in and sat on the bed. "How'd you sleep?"

"Ok I guess." She says, shrugging her shoulders. "Anyway, what's up."

Elena takes a deep breath before she talks to her sister. "This idea is going to sound crazy but I need you to hear me out." Katie nods her head and Elena continues. "I think we should talk to Katherine and ask her about her past."

"You're right Elena. This idea is crazy. Even if we got Katherine talking, how are we supposed to know she's telling the truth. Everything she says is a lie." Katie says to her sister.

"I know Katie but we have to try. Don't you want to know more about Valencia?"

In truth, Katie was curious about Valencia Petrova. All she knew was that she was Katherine's twin sister and she was dead. "Do you think this is a good idea. What if Stefan and Damon find out?"

"That's why I'm going to ask Caroline to cover for us."

"And Caroline is ok with this."

"Well she wasn't at first but I managed to convince her."

"Ok then we'll go talk to Katherine but if we get caught, I'm blaming you."

Elena chuckles and hugs her sister. Elena's phone rings. "Hey Stefan."

"Elena, can you and Katie drop by the house before school. There's something we need to talk about." Stefan says over the phone.

"Yeah sure. Is this about what happened yesterday?" Elena asks.

"In a way it is."

"Ok we'll be there soon." She hangs up the phone.

"What was that all about?" Katie asks her sister.

"Stefan wants us to stop by the house. Says he wants to talk about what happened yesterday."

"I'd rather forget about what happened."

"I know me to but it might be worth hearing him out."

"Ok then get out so I can get ready." Elena leaves the room and Katie gets out of bed to get ready.

Moments later, the sisters arrive at the boarding house. Elena knocks on the door and Damon answers it.

"Hello Elena. Hello Katie."

"Hi Damon. Is Stefan around? He called and said he wanted to talk about yesterday." Katie told Damon.

"Right this way." He says, stepping aside to grant them entry.

They step into the house and are greeted by Stefan. "Hey. Thanks for coming."

"What is this about?" Elena asks adjusting the strap of her bag.

To answer her question, Stefan steps aside to reveal Rose standing behind him. Katie, not being too thrilled about being in the same room as the vampire who kidnapped her, turns to walk out the door but is stopped by Damon. "Get out of my way Damon." She says trying to get past him but he grabs her shoulders to stop her.

"Katie," He squeezes her shoulders comfortingly, "She has information on the Originals. So can you play nice for a few minutes. Pretty please."

Katie rolls her eyes. "Fine."

They all walk into the sitting room. Elena and Katie sit next to each other on the couch. Rose starts to tell them what she knows. "Ok, I only know what I've picked up over the years. And I don't know what is and isn't true. That's the problem with all this vampire crap but Klaus I know is real."

"Who is he?" Elena asks with her arms folded.

"He's one of the Originals. He's a legend." Damon says answering her question.

"So he's like Elijah then?" Katie asks.

"No, Elijah was the Easter Bunny compared to Klaus. He's a foot soldier. Klaus is the real deal."

"Klaus is known to be the oldest." Stefan tells the twins.

"Ok so you're saying that the oldest vampire in the history of time is coming after us?" Elena says, gesturing to her and her sister.

"Yes." Rose says.

"No." Stefan says, immediately after.

Damon stands up. "I mean, if what she's saying is true…"

"Which it is." Rose insists.

"You're not saying this so we don't kill you."

"Which I'm not."

"Then we're looking at a solid maybe."

Elena and Katie immediately become worried upon hearing this. Stefan notices this and tries to reassure them. "Look, Elijah's dead, right? No one else even knows that the two of you exist."

"Not that you know of." Rose butts in.

"That's not helping." Damon tells her.

"I've never met anyone who's laid eyes on him. We're talking centuries of truth mixed with fiction. We don't know what's real. He could be some stupid bedtime story."

"He's real and he doesn't give up. If he wants something, he gets it. If you're not afraid then you're an idiot." Rose tells them.

Katie and Elena get up from the couch, not saying a word, and proceed to the front door. Stefan asks the pair where they are going. "School we're late." Elena replies.

"Let me go grab my stuff. I'll go with you." Stefan says getting up from his seat.

"Stefan. Elena and I have some girl business we want to talk about. I'm sure you don't want to be around for that." Katie tells him.

"Fair enough. I'll see you both at school."

The twins leave the house and go to meet up with Caroline.

They meet up with Caroline in the woods near the tomb where Katherine is being held. "Tell everyone that I wasn't feeling well and that Katie took me home." Elena tells Caroline to tell everyone if they ask where the twins were.

"I can't believe I'm agreeing to this." Caroline says trailing after the girls. "I'm a terrible liar."

"All you have to do is keep Stefan busy. We don't want him or Damon to find out what we're up to. You're smart Caroline. I'm sure you'll think of something." Katie assures the young vampire.

Caroline sighs. "Ok but why don't you want them to find out?"

"They'd only try and stop us." Katie replies as they descend down the stairs into the tomb. Caroline asks the pair if they're absolutely sure they want to do this, with the twins replying yes they were sure, Caroline lifts the heavy door away from the tombs entrance and steps back.

"Katherine?" Elena calls out. They hear footsteps approaching and Katherine steps out of the shadows, not looking her best. "Hello Katie. Hello Elena. Have you both come to watch me wither away?" Katherine notices Caroline standing behind them. "Goodbye Caroline."

Elena turns back to face Caroline. "As long as we stay on this side of the door, she can't hurt us."

Caroline nods her head and leaves.

Elena puts down the bag she was carrying. "Does Stefan and Damon know you're both here?"

"We brought you some things." Elena says as she and Katie dig through the bag.

"You came to bribe me. What is it that you want?"

"We want you to tell us about Klaus"

Elena holds a book in her hands. "We also brought you this. It's your family history. It says in here that the family ended with you and your sister. We all know that's not true."

"You both thought that if you brought me some family keepsake that I'd open up?" Katherine sneers at them.

"We also brought you this." Katie says holding up a bottle of blood.

Katherine rushes towards the exit, only to be stopped by the magical barrier. The veins around her eyes appearing.

"You aren't looking so good Katherine. How long will it be before your body shuts down. Ten, twenty years. It has got to be painful to just wither away like that. Tell us everything we want to know and we'll give you some blood." Katie told Katherine.

Accepting that she had no other choice, Katherine slid down the wall. Katie poured a small amount of blood in the small cup and pushed it over to Katherine using a stick. Katherine, weakly, grabs the cup and holds it to her lips. "You both have the Petrova fire." She says before hungrily gulping down the blood. She savours it's taste.

"More blood?" Elena asks.

Katherine puts the cup down and Katie pulls it towards her using the stick. "It's a long story, Klaus and I. Goes all the way back to England in 1492, after my sister and I left Bulgaria." Katie passes her more blood. "Or were thrown out." She says, drinking the blood.

"Thrown out?" Elena asks, confused.

"My family, your true ancestors, they disowned me. My indiscretions were not tolerated at that time. I had a baby out of wedlock. The shame."

"It was kept secret."

Katherine nods her head. "My baby was given away. I was banished to England. My sister refused to let me go through it alone so she left with me. We had to learn to adjust. We quickly became English. It was there that my sister and I caught the eye of a nobleman named Klaus. I was taken with him at first. My sister wasn't interested in him but she started seeing another Original."

"Elijah." Katie cut her off.

"Exactly. But then I found out what he was and what he wanted from either me or my sister. I begged Valencia to leave with me but she refused. She was so in love with Elijah. I had no choice but to flee without her."

She then told how she was chased through the woods by Elijah and that Trevor helped her by telling her that there was a cottage she could run to. She also explained what Klaus wanted from her and Valencia. That he wanted to break the curse by sacrificing one of the Petrova doppelgangers.

"Why does it have to be someone from the Petrova bloodline? Why not someone else?" Katie asks.

Katherine takes another drink of blood. "It's tedious but the curse was bound by the sacrifice of Petrova blood. Witches are crafty with their spells. One doppelganger was created as a way to undo the spell. The other was created as a fail safe in case anything happened to the other. Once they both reappeared, the curse can be broken."

"So you ran before he could kill you. But wouldn't he just use Valencia instead." Elena asks.

"He had another purpose for her from what I was told." She then explained how she met Rose and how Rose was going to take her back to Klaus.

"But Rose never took you back to Klaus, did she?" Katie asks her.

"No and not because she had a change of heart. I tried to kill myself. Rose noticed and gave me her blood to heal. That's when Trevor comes in. While Rose is distracted, I grab the rope she brought in and I hung myself."

Elena and Katie are horrified by this. "Oh my god, you killed yourself."

"No need to be dramatic Katie. Klaus needed a human doppelganger. As a vampire, I was no longer any use to him."

"But it didn't work." Elena points out. "You've been running ever since."

"I underestimated his spirit for vengeance. Living out of a suitcase is better than dying so that you could have your blood spilled over some silly rock." She noticed the look on their faces. "What's wrong? Afraid I'm right. Neither of you wanna die? There's another way out." She cuts her wrist with her nail and blood begins to seep out. "Better hurry. Your opportunity is going, going and gone." The wound on her wrist heals. "I made the other choice. I completed my transition and left Rose and Trevor with a price on their heads."

"Rose and Trevor spent the last five hundred years running because you used them. Trevor just got killed." Elena tells Katherine.

"Never thought he would've lasted that long." She says flipping through the book.

"You ruined their lives. Are you really that selfish?"

"I was looking out for myself girls. I will always look out for myself. If you're both smart you'll stick together and do the same."

"What happened to Valencia, Katherine?" Katie asked. After what she just heard, she had to know what happened to Katherine's sister.

"I went back to Bulgaria to check on my family. When I got there, my whole family was slaughtered. Klaus killed them all because I ran away. I found Valencia lying next to my mother with a dagger through her heart."

Katie put her hand over her mouth as she couldn't believe what had happened. If Katherine was telling the truth, then that could happen to their family.

"Why did you come back to Mystic Falls?" Elena asks.

"I figured after years of being on the run, Klaus might be willing to strike a deal."

"So you got Mason Lockwood to find you the moonstone." Katherine nods her head to indicate Elena is right. "What else is needed to break the curse? It's not just us or the stone." Katherine gives them a look. "Otherwise there would be no need to trigger Tyler Lockwood's werewolf curse."

Katherine shakes her head. "Witches and their spells. So many ingredients, so many people to sacrifice."

"So you need a werewolf." Elena replies.

"Believe it or not, they're hard to come by."

"What else is needed to break the curse?" Katie asks.

"A witch to do the spell. Mine bailed but little Bonnie will do just fine." Katherine replied.

"What else?" Katie urges her.

"A vampire." Katherine states.

Elena and Katie's eyes widen as they realise who Katherine intended to sacrifice. "Caroline." They say at the same time.

"Could have been anyone I suppose, but I like the poetry of Caroline."

"So you were just gonna hand us all over to be killed." Elena says with disgust.

Katherine simply replies, "Better you die than I."

They knew Katherine was ruthless but this really surprised them. Their friends, family and them would die and they could do nothing about it.

"Elena, Katie."

They turn to see Stefan walking towards them. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you both the same question."

"Did Caroline tell you?" Katie asks him.

"No she kept your secret but it didn't take me long to figure out what you two were up to. Everything she has just told you is a lie. Don't listen to her."

"You didn't hear what she said Stefan." Elena says to her boyfriend.

"You don't have to worry. I won't let anything happen to either of you."

"But you'll die trying."

Katherine creeps back into view. "There's nothing you can do Stefan. Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance. On your friends, your family and anyone that you've ever loved."

"Don't listen to her you two." Stefan tells them.

"Always the protector. Even you must realise that they're both doomed. You can't do anything to stop it. Unless you have this." She says holding up the moonstone."

"There it is." Stefan says, pointing at Katherine. "That the ultimate lie, isn't it. You spun this whole thing so that we would have to get the moonstone from you."

"I didn't spin anything, Stefan. It's the truth."

"No it isn't Katherine. You wanna trade that stone for your freedom. You manipulative, psychotic bitch." Stefan practically growls at her.

Katherine laughs at this. "That's were you're wrong. I don't want my freedom. When Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, I'll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can't get out. I'll be the safest psychotic bitch in town." Katherine then disappears back into the darkness of the tomb.

"I want to go home now." Katie says trying to hold back the tears.

Once they are home, Katie locks herself in her room and cries herself to sleep.

Thank you to everyone who reviewed the first chapter. Your reviews are greatly appreciated. Sorry that it took a while to update. I kept forgetting. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Sorry that Elijah wasn't in it but he will be in the next chapter I promise. Happy Reading

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