Elena was adopted…
That news rocked her to the core. The person that her parents always treated as their golden child wasn't even theirs to begin with. She fell second to someone who wasn't biologically her sister and maybe that's why they did it.
"How do you know all this?"
"Elena's birth certificate from the city records. It says Elena Gilbert, Mystic Falls General. But there's no record of your mother ever being admitted. There's no record of her ever being pregnant."
"What else do you know?"
"For me to go any further, I would've had to look into the Pierce family, and I couldn't do that. It's too much of a risk. If someone found out I was asking about Katherine.."
"Elena wouldn't be safe." Another thought occurred to her. "Elena doesn't know does she? That she was adopted?"
"No."
"But she knows about Katherine, that's why she took off."
"Yeah and she' was with Damon."
She saw the necklace sitting on the desk, "without her necklace."
"Damon could have taken her anywhere."
"He's not going to hurt her. He's going to make you think he would to torture you but he's not going to hurt her. I bet there doing a little bonding and while they are you're going to tell me everything I know about Katherine Pierce and her connection to my sister."
Stefan poured a drink.
"If it's not safe for you to be asking questions about Katherine then it's safe to say that Elena walking around with her face isn't a good thing either."
He handed her a glass. "No. Katherine did a lot of horrible things to a lot of different people. And now that I know that she didn't burn in the church, " she took it and he poured one for himself.
"But she survived with the other hungry pissed off vamps," she took a sip. "This a dumb question and I know the answer but do you think there's a chance Damon a going to just give up on trying to free Katherine."
"As far as I know," he sat on the edge of the desk, "Emily necklace was the only way to do it."
"So there's no other possible way to get in that tomb?"
"I don't think that's going to stop Damon."
"Then we have to stop him. There's no way we can let him open that tomb."
"Damon can't be stopped once he made up his mind to do something."
"I have to try. If those tombed vampires get out who do you think they're going to go after first and biological or not Elena is still a Gilbert which means, she's in as much danger as the rest of us. And from what I heard Katherine is the last person you want out of there, neither do I. And a vampire with my sister's face could do a lot of damage to a lot of people."
He seriously considered it, "you have something in mind don't you?"
"Damon may not completely trust me but he thinks my hatred of you makes me liable to do anything. Even help him free a tomb full of vampires."
"Is that why you helped him kill Lexi? Because you hate me?"
She knew he had heard what Damon said at the church ruining and was wondering when he was going to bring it up. "You killed my best friend Stefan. You and Damon. Vicki was my Lexi and you took her. So I decided to help Damon take what you had with Lexi and now I'm going to help you take Katherine from Damon. I can find out what he's planning but I need to know a few things first."
"Elena…."
"Elena is going to want to keep me safe but that's not her job. She's going to want me out of it but that's not going to happen. The only way that I can be safe is if I'm in the middle of this thing because not knowing is much more dangerous. But to stay safe I need to know everything starting with Katherine. Elena's diary said that you were changed in 1864. Is that when you met Katherine?"
"Yeah." He leaned from the table and pulled out the chair behind the desk. "We thought she was a poor orphan who lost her entire family in a fire."
"Because that's what she told you?" She took her seat on the edge of his bed.
"Yeah...and she was…"
She stopped him before he got into details. "No details require please. I've seen you with Elena.I get the picture."
"That's the thing. Katherine is nothing like Elena. She's selfish and entitled."
"All of the things I've accused Elena of being but I get your point. She's a bitch. Also can see her appeal to Damon. Get to the part where you stabbed him in the back."
"Damon was was a confederate soldier and he was suppose to get deployed but he stayed behind much to the delight of Katherine. She had both of us to entertain her. She said she needed a date Damon and I both volunteered. She chose me. I escorted her to the ball at the original Lockwood mansion."
"The first founder's party...Where you and Damon signed the registry." She remembered seeing both of their names on the registry during the last founder's ball when she went Matt.
"I didn't care that I had gotten something that my brother wanted. I didn't even care if it hurt him. I only knew that I wanted her.
"So he was upset."
"That's the thing about Damon. He doesn't get mad. He just gets even."
"We have that in common."
Stefan continued, "But what Damon wants, Damon usually gets. I didn't know it at the time, but...Turns out that night...Katherine was with him, too."
"So he stole her from you, not the other way around?"
"Turns out, she wasn't ours to steal. "
"She was playing you both."
"She compelled us so that we wouldn't tell the other we were seeing her. She wanted the both of us. Forever. Didn't work out that way, for her but...Damon and I, we're stuck with each other...Like it or not."
"So Damon's vow of a lifetime of misery is because Katherine wanted you too?"
"Because I made the mistake of trusting my father. I believed that I could make him understand that there were some good vampires out there. That not all of them were monsters. He figured out that I meant Katherine and he spiked my drink with vervain so the next time she bit me she would taste it. Damon and I tried to save her and we got shot and Katherine ended up in the tomb. What we didn't know is Katherine had fed us her blood before hand."
"And you made the decision to turn into vampires."
"I made this for him. And he never forgave me."
"And he hates you for it... can't say that I blame him. Nobody should be forced into making a decision like that."
"And he's spent the past 154 years torturing me for it. "
She took a moment to mull over what was said and pulled out her cell phone.
It rang a few times but he eventually picked up.
"Damon Salvatore speaking how may I assist you today"
"You can start by telling me where you are with my sister and we can move our way down the list."
"I see you've spoke to Stefan."
"Actually I'm still speaking with Stefan and he's had a lot to say about you. Care to guess what that is?"
"Not particularly."
"Not even if it involves opening the tomb." The line went silent. "That is what you want right? To open the tomb? And I'm guessing that's what you're doing with Elena isn't it? Trying to find a way to get into the tomb?"
After another short pause he asked, "Stefan put you up to this?"
"Yes actually he did. He wants to know what your planning so he can stop you." She said looking at him. "He thinks we're on the same side. Given the fact that all the tomb vampires are bound to have a grudge with the founding families and unfortunately that means me. He would happen to be right. Those vampires can't be let out but Katherine can for a small promise."
"I'm listening."
"You take Katherine and Stefan and you get out of Mystic Falls. And only after you take care of whatever vampires still left in town."
"What do you get out of this?"
"A town free of vampires. My life back. Elena safe. Speaking of which I'm pretty offended that in all our plotting you never once mentioned Elena's uncanny resemblance with Katherine."
She could practically see his knitted brow when he said, "you have been talking to Stefan."
"All part of the deal. He tells me the full story and I make sure I find out how you planning on opening that tomb."
"I'm working on it."
"I may have found a way to help with that but I'm still at the boarding house so can't discuss it. Stop by later so we can talk?"
He hung up after agreeing.
"That seemed a little too easy." Stefan said skeptical
"Of course it was he's blinded by love. He's so desperately wants to release Katherine that he's willing to believe anything. Which means his guard is down and I'll need that if my plans going to work." She stood ready to go after finding out the information she wanted and more than she bargained for and he stood with her. "Elena's going to have questions about her resemblance to Katherine. You have to tell her Stefan. She deserves to know. And I think it'd be better coming from you."
"Yeah I know."
She left without a goodbye.
"You're home early." Jenna greeted Alyssa with.
"I wasn't at school." She replied truthfully knowing it was only way she was going to get answers. She could see Jenna disappointment on her face and stopped her before she could say whatever she was going to. "How come you never told me Elena was adopted?" she asked crossing her arms. She could see she was caught off guard. "Or Elena for that matter?"
"Your parents asked me not to. She wanted to wait till Elena was eighteen." after a quick pause she asked, "How'd you find out?"
"Does that really matter?"
"Does Elena know?"
"Not yet. But she will and you can't keep this from her if she asks. You got to tell her the truth. All of it. She deserves at least that much."
She walked upstairs grabbing Jonathan Gilbert's journal on the way into her room and sat on the bed to finish reading it.
She was a few entries in when he mentioned Emily Bennett and alluded to the fact that he knew she was a witch and he kept her secret in exchanged she'd helped him with his invention which she concluded was the compass she used to track down Logan.
If that were the case, she knew of only one person who could help her with her current problem.
"Ms. Bennet," she stood outside Sheila Bennett home. "I don't know if you remember me but I'm Alyssa Gilbert. Elena's sister."
"I know who you are. Bonnie isn't here."
"I actually came to talk to you. It's about your ancestors Emily. I found this journal of an ancestor of mine," she said after she was let in and Sheila served some tea, "Jonathan Gilbert. He mentions Emily in his journal and I was hoping that you could help."
"I'm not sure of what help I can offer." She said sitting at the table across from her. "I'm afraid your ancestor was a little before my time."
"I know. But you're family history is as rich as mine. I'm sure you've heard stories. Maybe ones about vampires being that you're a witch." The sudden way she shifted when she mentioned vampires made gave her away. "So you have heard."
"They're been vampires in Mystic Falls for centuries. It's always been our motto to stay out of their business."
"Except that's not what Emily chose to do. My ancestor Jonathan Gilbert wrote how Emily helped him get rid of the towns vampires. She spelled things for him. One of those being a compass that tracks vampires. He used that to gather up all the vampires in Mystic Falls in 1864 and put them in the old church. Only they didn't die in the fire set. Emily spelled them shut in a tomb under the church. It's only a matter of time before someone comes looking to open it. I'm asking you if that's possible."
"Every spell is as different as the witch who cast it. If Emily sealed them in there, then only Emily knows how to open it."
"Is there a way you could find that out?"
"I'm not sure that I can."
"Please. I know you have no reason to help me but what about Bonnie. What would happen to her and the rest of the town if they got out."
She watched as she thought about it. "There may be a way of finding out."
"If there's anything you can do." She stood up so she could leave. There was still a lot to figure out before Damon got back like what she was going to tell him about what she found out.
But when she returned home Elena was back and she could tell by the look on her face when she walked into her room she knew Stefan had told her the truth.
She walked in and sat in front of her. "I would ask if you talked to Stefan but this," she touched the bear she was holding, "answers that for me."
"You know?"
"Stefan told me when I went over there looking for you when you didn't came home last night and after his cryptic call. That's when I found the obituary of Katherine."
"She looks so much like me."
"If you're worried that Stefan is with you because you look like her…."
"I was. But he told me that he's not and I believe him."
"So what now?"
"I don't know."
"Well whatever you decide, I'm here for you. I haven't always been but I am now. And no matter what some DNA test says you're always be my annoyingly perfect big sister."
Elena reached for her hand given it a squeeze. She left left a half hour later after getting the details of Elena's trip with Damon. It was an adventurous day for the both of them but hers wasn't over. Not until after she talked to Damon. She needed to know whether or not he knew about the man in the road that caused Elena to crash her car.
She also wanted to know what he found out about opening the tomb but thought those questions were better asked in person which lead her to calling to find out where he was on her way to her room.
Turns out she didn't have to look that far nor was she surprised. "So what did you find out?" She walked in closing her bedroom door as she did.
"You first."
"I spent the last few hours reading a journal that belong to Jonathan Gilbert. I'm sure you already know most of what's in it since you lived it including he knew Emily. She Helped him spell some things like that compass. So I thought maybe he'd know some of her secrets too. But I found nothing yet so I went to the one person I knew could help. Bonnie grandmother. She's agreed to help. If anybody will know how to get into the tomb she will. As soon as she knows. So will we."
Alyssa watched Damon leave and once she was she picked up her phone, "he believed me." She told Stefan as he picked up. "We're a go."
A/N: Another chapter done.
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DarkDust27: I've always had plans to pair Alyssa with Klaus and Elijah but not Rose...Until now, so thanks for that. I'm forming ideas about that as I write.
Nothing But My Aching Soul: I knew from the beginning when I was thinking about what version of this to write (cause I had/have a lot of ideas) that I wanted to include Matt more in the plot of the story in the beginning than he was in the show. So no matter what version of it I decided to go with, it was always planned that my OC and Matt would have some sort of connection. So I'm glad you like the friendships I've created.
annalouise92: A Klaus and Alyssa pairing has always been in the work. I'm still not sure what capacity that will be in yet but because of their similarity in attitude I thought it'd be fun for them cause a little trouble together. As you will see, Alyssa does have a bit of a dark side that starts to show a little more and I think the two of them can together can be a lot of fun.
LightSparkLove: I hope you're enjoying the moments that Damon and Alyssa are sharing so far and there will be more to come. Cause like Klaus, I love their dynamic together.
And to everyone thanks for reading, favoring, following, you know who you are.
Until next time xoxo