Fall 2010

It had been over about 2 1/2 years since Bela Talbot had been turned into a vampire. That was 2 1/2 years spent running and hiding, and fearing that any of her old hunter contacts would find out what she was and kill her. Not to mention the demons...yes she had died from the hellhounds, but she was supposed to be in hell now and she was pretty sure that if Lilith or any of her other demons found out they would find her and kill her. So Bela stayed on the run for a long time...this year she went as far as cutting her hair and changing her name...Rose. Sure, it was a weird after so many years as Bela, not that she wasn't used to using false names. Atleast Rose was real to her though, it had been her given middle name...Abigail Rose... from the one person in Bela's life that had loved her...her mother, Isabela. The mom who died when Bela was 6, thanks to Bela's pyschotic and abusive father. Bela could never go back to being Abby, that was her father's name for her...so she chose Rose, as it was the only one she could think of that wasn't tainted by his memory.

Unfortunately Rose's (Bela's) life on the run ended a few weeks back. She'd run into another vampire, he seemed more powerful than the others she'd run into during her life amonst the supernatural. He had told her he would teach her all there was to being a vampire, and while she trusted no one she had for some reason accepted that he was there to help her. She was wrong, again. His name was Elijah...and he wanted something from her, and he was used to getting his way. He compelled Rose to come to Mystic Falls with the aid of another vampire named Trevor. The two of them were both being used by Elijah...and while inside Rose hated doing what anyone told her to do, she could not defy him. They were to kidnap a girl named Elena...and from what Rose had overheard it was about a breaking a curse. Trevor seemed to know more about it than she did...he had apparently been alive for hundreds of years. He told her that this girl was a look alike...what was the word...Doppleganger...to another old vampire named Katerina.

Rose knew the supernatural world, she'd heard things from hunters over the years...but all this curse and doppleganger talk was enough to have her confused like never before. She managed to get Trevor to tell her all he knew about it. Besides, Rose was all about freedom...and if she had to take this doppleganger to get her freedom back she would do it. Elijah may have compelled her to kidnap Elena, but Rose still had her own mind and spunk. She wasn't stupid, she knew Elijah wouldn't just let her go after all this...he'd kill her and Trevor as soon as they delivered Elena. It was time for Rose to do what she does best...make deals. There had to be a way to make a deal with Elijah to let her and Trevor go. Maybe he could just compel them to forget everything so he wouldn't have to worry about them telling anyone. That had to be good enough.

Rose had been alone in the huge abandoned home for a few hours when she heard Trevor pull up. She stayed upstairs while she watched him walk in with Elena in his arms. My god, she was practically still a child. She felt bad, but she didn't have a choice. She was compelled to keep Elena until Elijah came for her. There really wasn't anything she could do right?

She smelled human blood...obviously the girl was hurt. She noticed Trevor looking at her, he obviously had control issues. She then blurred behind him...Elijah wouldn't be happy if Elena was hurt, and to be honest she didn't really want to see anything bad happen to her anyways.

"Trevor! Control yourself will you."

Her jerked up from Elena, and shot her a dirty look.

"Whatever..." he said, and got up and walked away.

Elena tried to sit up.

"He said I looked like her...but I'm not, I'm not Katherine." Elena whispered. "Please, you don't..."

"Be quiet." Rose said. Elena didn't need to think Rose felt sorry for her. There wasn't another way, so there wasn't really a point in befriending her or giving her a false sense of security. Rose had no idea what Elijah was going to do with her.

Elena finally stood up.

"Look, I am not Katherine. My name is Elena, you don't have to do this. What do you want with.."

Rose decided she was tired of talking to her and knocked her out.

"I told you to be quiet..."

It still took her by surprise even after all these years at the strength she now possessed.

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