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The Curse

Elena, finally getting up decided to give Amy a visit, and to tell her that she knew the truth about her and maybe even get some shopping done. She got dressed and headed off to her car. Damon was out there waiting for her (Surprise Surprise.) "Where are you going?" He asked with a quizzical smirk.

"To Amy's, I think that we need to talk and I need some help buying my Masquerade costume," Damon's eye brows rose and he opened his mouth but Elena cut him off, "No you can't come…Watch Stefan ok." Damon nodded as Elena left in her car.

Amy after failing to find sleep came down stairs to find that Tom and Eileen had left early that morning leaving a note next to a tall stack of blueberry pancakes the note read in Eileen's Elegant script,

"Dearest Amy, Happy Saturday, we hope that you slept well Tom and I have gone to the farmers market to get some fresh vegetables we'll be back this afternoon, (you know how I get with fresh food;) Enjoy your pancakes

Love Tom and Eileen"

Amy set the letter down smiling, she really does love her foster parents. As she began to dig into her breakfast there was a swift knock on her door. Still in her pink heart pajamas that Eileen had bought her, Amy answered the door to find a bright eyed Elena at the door. A little surprised by the visit Amy invited her in and brought her into the kitchen, "Well this is a surprise," Amy began as she made a plate of pancakes for Elena, "Here, Eileen always makes too much." Elena took the plate happily; she was in such a hurry to get to Amy's house that she forgot to eat breakfast. "So Damon told you didn't he," The question was so blunt that Elena was caught off guard, she couldn't say anything, "Come on Elena, I can see it in your eyes this whole visit just screams we need to talk!" Amy smiled at her now red faced friend who obviously wasn't planning on bringing this part of the conversation up until much later. "It's ok, I fine with you knowing."

"Really? You have this huge secret and your just fine with me knowing?" Elena said swallowing a huge piece of her pancake.

Amy smiled lightly jabbing at her own pancake, "Yeah, in fact it's a little bit of a relief it's been 530 years since I could really talk to a person without this secret weighing on my shoulders."

Elena began to choke on her food, "Five- hundred years! H-h-how? "

Amy smiled knowingly, "Maybe I should just start from the beginning…How much do you actually know?"

Elena swallowed another piece of pancake and replied, "I know that you were Klaus's one and only love and that on the night before your wedding you were stolen by a witch…and now you're here," Amy smiled at the generic answer, "Oh I also know that you're the only one to ever out smart Klaus…You have for…5 hundred years now?" Amy blushed, it was true but she still wasn't used to being praised.

"I guess I'll start from that night," Elena quickly swallowed giving her full attention to Amy, " I remember, it was a hot night, I was tossing and turning in my room, I was too excited to sleep, I thought it was the heat so I went to open a window but when I turned around there was a dark figure in front of me, the figure stepped into the moon light to reveal a young African women she was wearing a long black cloak shading her true face, she said, 'You must be Klaus's bride…I hate Klaus, you should too, he's an abomination against nature Amelia' I told her that I knew and that I loved him anyway, she brought on a righteous fury upon me, raising my belonging with her magic and throwing them all around my room, smashing glass and flowers along my walls. There was a point when a piece of glass slashed across my forehead, hands, and arms as I tried to protect my face. When everything was settled on the ground again and I thought she had left I set my arms back to my sides. This reviled not only the witch but four other men, they grabbed, me as I fought the Witch came close to my face and said, 'I guess if you feel that way then we need to have a talk.' And everything went dark. When I woke up I was tied up laying against a stone wall it was cold and damp were I was, as soon as I felt the cold dripping water I knew that I was in a catacomb,(underground chambers great families kept their wine and anything that needed to be frozen, or hidden away.) My eyes went straight to the open fire where the witch was sitting comfortably, she noticed that I was conscious and said, 'My dear Amelia, I really didn't want to do this, but you insisted on loving him. Since you're a human I won't kill you but that won't save you from the pain I will inflict upon you!' She then proceeded to torture me, burning me, ripping out my hair, breaking my bones, pouring acid upon my bare skin. Every time before she would administer her choice of torture she would always say, 'Just say you don't love him and all of this stops! I'll even let you go!' I would tell her no and that Klaus was probably looking for me and how he would make her pay for what she was doing to me. As time wore on my faith in Klaus began to waver but I never recanted my love for him. The witch, Arianne I think it was, became tired of just torturing me so she decided to do something different… She cursed me," Amy looked down at her hands remembering the pain of that awful day, " Placing the curse itself is very painful, she had to cut every inch of my body with a piece of shattered glass from my room, set a ring of fire around me and broke both of my legs. She branded both of my hands with a hot poker. At the end of it I wished that she had killed me, but the curse was set and here I am."

"What exactly is your…Curse Amy?" Elena interrupted.

Amy's face now in a flat line answered, " My curse is that every time a human being is bitten or killed by a vampire I gain a life, and by life I mean that the life that the vampire had taken from that person adds onto my life that way that life is not lost and the balance is maintained. I don't live forever necessarily, I have died before and it's a very unpleasant experience."

"You've died before?"

"Yup, just because I gain lives doesn't mean I don't die. It's just when I die I come back here on the earth, but it's not like reincarnation. I come back as my seventeen year old self, the age I was when the curse was placed on me. I can even grow old! I can choose in every life if I want to grow up to be eighteen or thirty, once in the mid 1500's I decided to grow old to about 90 years old when I died. It took about a week for me to come back so I really don't enjoy doing that. I haven't died in the past two centuries and I am pretty proud of that."

"When you die what happens to you?"

"That's the worst part of the curse, every time I die I see the white light, I hear the voices of my father, mother, and sisters but by the time I get to the end of the path I'm back here on earth with no family, and no one to love me at least until I find and make friends with people, like my dad and Tom and Eileen."

"Why didn't you go and find Klaus?"

"I did actually, it was in 1492 eleven years after my kidnapping I had tracked Klaus down and was ready to see him again. I wanted to put his searching to an end…But when I found him he was courting a young lady named Katarina Potrova, your double ganger, it was then that I found that he had given up on our love and was trying to break his own curse instead of trying to save me,so I left England and headed off to travel the world. Never to see Klaus again."

"He still loves you Amy you must know that!"

"Really Elena? Does he, instead of searching for me he just gave me up for dead and went on with his life. I envy him, the way he and Stefan can turn off their emotions is in fact a blessing."

Elena looked scorned and yelled, "Why on earth would you think that!"

"Elena can you really blame me? I've traveled everywhere I've met the most amazing people and I grew to love every last one of them! It's excruciating to see them all die and have me live! I've seen people who are more deserving of life. I would give anything to go with them but that is my curse whenever I try to follow them I just come back to where I started. I will be here when Tom and Eileen die and even when you die Elena, unless you become a vampire adding another life to my curse."

Elena rose from her set and crossed the room to a now crying Amy and held her in a tight hug. As Amy sat there within Elena's grasp she couldn't help but finally feel the weight of true loneliness leave her as she found a true friend. "It's going to be ok I understand everything! I'm so sorry Amy! You have me, Matt, and even Damon…I'll make him." Elena was winking at Amy as she began to loosen her grip.

Amy was now giggling, "Yeah, that's a real relief!"

Elena smiled widely and said, "I know what will make you feel better?"

Amy now really curious asked, "What on earth could make me feel better? I just recapped all of the most horrendous things that have ever happened to me!"

Elena smiled with a foxy grin, "Shopping!"

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