We were at the house. Damon had something that he wanted to talk to Alaric about and we invited Elena over as well. We were currently waiting for him to arrive. Damon let him in when he did.
"Hey Ric, can I get you anything? Bourbon? Coffee? Bourbon in your coffee?" Damon asked.
"Mikaela said that you needed to talk to me." The teacher replied. It seemed like we were skipping the pleasantries.
"Yes, we needed to talk to you about the Lockwoods." Damon declared. "The vervain didn't affect them but the Gilbert device affected the mayor and Tyler."
"Also Mason exhibited superhuman abilities when fighting one of the carnival workers." Stefan added. I couldn't help but wonder how I had missed it.
"Why would I know anything about the Lockwoods?" Ric asked.
"You wouldn't but your dead, not dead vampire wife might." Damon explained.
"Didn't Isobel have some research?" I asked. "Was there anything besides vampires and witches?"
"She also researched lycanthropes." He declared.
"Yes, I knew it was werewolves!" Anna shouted. We all stared at her "Sorry."
"No way. There is no way that werewolves can exist." Damon denounced. "I've been on this earth for 170 years and I've never seen one. This is all way too Lon Chaney."
"Well I've been around longer and have seen one." Anna argued. "Also Lon Chaney never played a werewolf."
"Was there any way that we could check out Isobel's research?" Elena asked.
"Well Isobel's research in Mystic Falls is restricted to vampires, but she has other research in her office at Duke." Ric explained.
"Great, so make a call so we can go there." Damon suggested. "I still don't think that these werewolves exist, but if they do and Mason and Tyler are wolves, I do know that it doesn't usually turn out well for vampires like me and I need to know how to stop them."
"Well someone needs to be here to deal with Caroline." Elena pointed out.
"Anna, do you think you and Stefan can handle that?" I requested.
"I can but I don't really want to." Anna admitted. It seemed like she wasn't too thrilled with me going with Elena.
"But will you do it?" I asked.
"Sure." She responded with a sigh. "Just make sure to call when you get there."
"Okay." I agreed before I went to my room to write in my diary.
Dear Diary
It looks like we have some werewolves to deal with. I am not exactly thrilled about this but Damon is right when he says that we need to know about them, especially since tomorrow is a full moon. The thing that doesn't quite add up is the fact that I've seen Tyler on a full moon and I don't think anything has happened to him other than fits of rage. Actually it was possible that those things were related. He did seem to be his angriest around the full moon, but I am pretty sure that he's not a werewolf.
The next day, I was in Elena's room as we got ready to go to Duke. I was wearing a sleeveless tartan dress with black tights and boots.
"Are you sure that Anna is okay with you going with me?" She asked.
"Yes." I responded. Well I didn't think that she was okay with it, but she wasn't going to say I couldn't go with her.
"Maybe it would just be best to wait to do this until this thing with Caroline is sorted out." She declared.
"We can't do that." I argued. "It's a full moon tonight and we need to find out whatever we can about werewolves.'
"Well maybe I shouldn't go then." She responded.
"Elena, Isobel is your birth mother. You should get a chance to know what she was like before she was a heartless vampire." I explained. "You really don't have to worry. Anna and I are secure enough in our relationship that we know nothing is going to happen."
At least I was pretty sure that nothing would happen. I didn't think that I had feelings for Elena anymore. I was not sure if she still had feelings for me or not. At that point, I noticed that Alaric had arrived and was downstairs talking to Jenna.
"Girls, Ric's here." She called up.
"It looks like it's time for us to go." I declared. We went downstairs and then outside where Damon was.
"So were you two going to make out in the backseat?" He asked me. I just raised my middle finger to him. My brother could be so annoying sometimes. You would think that I would be used to it by now, but being his sister was still a challenge every day. I was pretty sure that he just liked to annoy people.
I sat as in the backseat with Elena as the car began to roll along.
"So are you still mad at me?" Damon asked her. She didn't say anything. "You know that's pretty childish."
"Well you did try to kill one of her friends." I pointed out.
"But I didn't." Damon pointed out. "Doesn't that count for anything."
"So Mikaela, I really like that dress that you're wearing." Elena declared.
"You know talking about clothes isn't going to get me to leave you alone." Damon remarked. "I personally am a big of Tom Ford and Calvin Klein."
I couldn't help but sigh. Damon was one of the few guys who could talk about clothes and still be one hundred percent heterosexual. It was going to be a long few hours to Durham. It was too bad that we wouldn't able to see anything there. Duke did have a long history of academic achievement. They were also really good at basketball. They pretty much sucked at every other sport, but at least they were good at that. I knew that they had a lot of players in the NBA even though I didn't really like basketball. It was too slow.
After a little while, we arrived at Duke and got out of the car. It was a beautiful campus. There was a sign that read Krzyzewskiville, after the longtime basketball coach. I liked to think that it was hell for him growing up because teachers had no idea how to pronounce his name.
"So technically, Isobel was employed by the Anthropology Department." Alaric explained as we walked over to the Ernestine Friedl building. There was a young woman sitting at the desk. "Hi I'm Alaric Saltzman. I called earlier because I wanted to see my late wife's office."
"Yes, I remember." She declared. "I'm Vanessa Munroe, graduate student Comparative Folklore. Isobel was one of my professors. I'll get her keys. I have to ask did they ever find anything out about her?"
"No." He lied before we headed down to the office. "These are my friends, Damon, Mikaela and Elena."
She let us into the office. It looked kind of dusty, but I assumed that was because it hadn't been used in a while.
"I'll get the light." Vanessa replied as we began to look around. After a few seconds, I noticed an arrow flying through the air and into Damon's back. That looked painful. Ric grabbed her and held her against the wall. "Okay, I freaked. I read Isobel's research Damon Salvatore died in 1864 and there is no way that Katherine Pierce or Mikaela Salvatore could be alive."
"Get it out, Elena." Damon begged. "I can't reach it and it's causing me great pain."
"I want you to apologize first." Elena replied. That was bold.
"Are you kidding me?" Damon asked. She just stood there. It was amusing to watch. "Fine, I'm sorry for what I did and I won't try to do it again in the future. Now will you take it out?"
Elena then pulled it out of him.
"That bitch is dead." Damon declared. I wasn't sure if killing her would accomplish anything.
Elena then walked over to Vanessa.
"My name is Elena Gilbert, Isobel's daughter and a descendant of Katherine Pierce." She declared. "We were hoping that you could answer some of our questions."
I figured that it would be a good time to call Anna.
"Hi." She answered.
"So are you and Stefan out with Caroline?" I asked her.
"Not yet. I just managed to convince Bonnie to make the ring for her." She explained.
"How did you do that?" I questioned.
"I did it the easy way, by questioning if she could actually do it." She answered. "So are you on campus?"
"Yeah." I replied. "I'll talk to you later or I'll call if I have any information for you."
I began to look around the office as they looked over the research. It seemed Isobel had a bit of a paranormal fetish judging by all of the things that she had collected. I supposed it made sense why she wanted to be a vampire so much. She was obsessed with it.
"So can you read minds?" Vanessa asked.
"Yes I do like girls on top." Damon responded.
"No, we can't read minds." I deadpanned before Elena handed her some vervain.
"Does vervain work?" Vanessa questioned.
"No, not at all." Damon declared.
"Damon's very capable of being a first-rate jackass though." Elena replied. It seemed to be his default setting.
Later, Damon was being cryptic and flirty with Elena about this stuff. He really wasn't being helpful.
"If you have something to tell us, then just tell us." I told him. "If not, then shut up."
"Hey guys, check this out." Ric instructed as we came across a book.
"There's no record of werewolf mythology in Mystic Falls, but here are some other records about it." Vanessa explained. "There's also something called the Curse of the Sun and the Moon. Basically, 600 years ago, the Aztecs were overrun by vampires and werewolves, so a shaman put a curse on them, making it so vampires were killed by the sun and werewolves could only turn on a full moon."
"Okay, I don't think that I can buy into this." I responded. "I really don't believe that shamans are real and seriously doubt vampires can't go in the sun because of a curse."
"You know there happens to be something in here about you." Vanessa explains. That got my interest. "Mikaela Salvatore, the girl who was not like the others. She was left with her father shortly after she was born. Not much is known about her mother, but I was able to get a name. Freya."
So my mother's name was Freya. It didn't really mean anything because even though it wasn't the most common name, I wouldn't be able to locate someone solely by their first name and unlike what Jenna did, there weren't records to look at.
"What else did you find?" I asked.
"Werewolves will attack humans, but instinct leads them to their prey of choice: vampires." Vanessa continued.
"If werewolves were hunting vampires, I would know about it." Damon argued.
"Not if there aren't that many. Werewolves can't be turned like vampires. You have to be born one." Vanessa explained. "Vampires hunted them because legend has it that a werewolf bite is fatal to a vampire."
"That's not good." Damon commented.
It definitely was not good, especially if what we thought about Mason was true. Since tonight was a full moon, it meant that Stefan, Anna, and Caroline could be in danger. I decided that I should tell Anna the news.
"So there's something that you might need to be worried about." I declared. "We've got word that a werewolf bite can kill a vampire and we don't know which of them are werewolves, so you need to be careful and probably get everyone inside just to be safe."
"I'll go see if I can find Stefan and Caroline." She responded. "By the way, we had a pretty successful hunting trip, except for the part where Stefan made me drink animal blood."
"You probably shouldn't have gone hunting with him." I remarked. I could almost hear her rolling her eyes. "I love you and be safe."
"I love you too." She declared before she hung up the phone.
Elena looked through the stuff, finding an old picture of Katherine.
"So have you done in research on doppelgangers?" She asked Vanessa.
"Well it means double goer in German, and basically a doppelganger will torment their lookalike. There wasn't anything explaining why they exist, but there can only be one living doppelganger at a time, meaning there can't be identical twins. They try to undo their lives." Vanessa explained.
"Yeah, that describes Katherine pretty well." I commented.
"I just wanna know why we look alike." Elena remarked. Did there need to be a reason? Will Ferrell looked just like the drummer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
"It's quite a mystery, isn't it?" Damon remarked.
"Damon, we really don't need this." I stated. "If you don't know anything, don't say anything."
"If I did, I wouldn't tell either of you with that kind of attitude." My brother responded.
"You're not doing a good job of mending the bridge." I told him.
At that point, Elena went outside and I followed her to make sure that she was safe because someone had to do it.
"So I can't believe that Isobel researched you." She responded.
"Yeah, but she really didn't give me any useful information." I pointed out. "All I know is that my mother was named Freya and she might have had blonde hair like me. That really doesn't give me any information about who she was or how or when she died or why she gave me up and the worst part is that I will probably never know about her."
"I'm sorry." She said as she put her arm on my shoulder. It felt pretty nice. I kind of wanted a hug from her, but I had a feeling that it would give her the wrong idea and the last thing that I wanted her to think was that I wanted for us to get back together. It would be best if she moved on like I did and found another girl to be with. I didn't know who she could be, but it couldn't be that hard to find a young lesbian or she could even be with someone who was bisexual. There were probably more of them. "So it's hard to believe that Tyler might be a werewolf."
"I don't think I can believe it." I responded. "I've seen him during a full moon. There is a pretty good chance that Mason is one though, which makes me pretty worried. We can't really do anything while everyone else is out there. I really hope that they don't get bitten because while there isn't any confirmation that a bite is fatal, it's not exactly something that I want to find out. On the bright side, things went well with Caroline."
"I know that things will go okay." She stated. "Things seem to always turn out right in the end."
"I got something for you." Damon declared. I didn't even notice him coming outside. He had a book in his hand. "You know you really weren't looking too hard."
"Petrova?" She asked. "I saw that on the shelf, but I don't know what it has to do with anything."
"It's Katherine, real name." Damon explained. How did he know that? "Katerina Petrova. I saw her inscribed on a necklace of hers. I'm guessing that there's something about you family history in there. Let me know what you find. I'm kind of interested myself. You know you're right to hate me. I wasn't thinking rationally when it came to Caroline or what it would have done to you if I succeeded. But you hated me before and we became friends, so I think that we can do it again."
"I think we should probably go home." I declared. "Hey, Ric, you need to get over here or I'm going to steal your car."
I knew how to hotwire a car. It was necessary in case I needed to make a quick escape.
The way back really wasn't that eventful. It was just dark. I did manage to get a text from Anna saying that everyone was over. Tyler wasn't a werewolf, but they were assuming that Mason was. It was good to know but he really didn't seem to be much of a threat. Sheriff Forbes told Damon that he didn't even believe in vampires, which seemed a little bit hard to believe since he was a werewolf, but he probably wasn't an enemy. Vanessa even said that werewolves can't control themselves when they turn, so he probably didn't know what he was doing. On the other hand, having something like around seemed like it would be dangerous.
Once we got back, we first went to Elena's house. I decided that it would be best to take her to her door.
"You know Damon does seem like he's sorry for what went down with Caroline." I responded. "Well he's sorry for what went down the other night. I don't think he cares too much about the other things that he did to her, but I think that you should forgive him. It would be a lot easier if you didn't hate him."
With that, I decided to go home.
So the trip to Duke brought out some Mikaela and Elena that we haven't seen. Plus Mikaela found out her mother's name. Please don't forget to review.
