Disclaimer: you know who these beautiful creatures belong to...me! Just kidding, although I do own them in my dreams!
I woke up with my head in Matt's lap and everyone staring at me.
I sat straight up and stared in disbelief at two Elena's. I looked around at everyone and shook my head to clear it of the cobwebs. Matt helped me stand since it was hard to do with one hand.
"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" I asked still leaning into Matt for support.
"I can." Stephan pulled one of the Elena's into him and kissed her head. We all processed to sit down comfortably, I sat on Matt's lap and leaned into his chest. The others sat before me, Damon choosing to stand, leaning against a tree. "This might sound strange, but I hope you can handle this."
"Trust me, my life of the last 2 years has been anything but normal." I sighed.
"Katherine is Elena's ancestor. She's a... a vampire." I laughed and they all looked at me like I was crazy.
"She is not a vampire. I've met a vampire and she is not one."
"What do you mean, you've met a vampire?"
"She means... she's met Cold Ones." We all looked up to find Alice and Jasper standing next to Damon. "Hello everyone, again."
"Are you following me?" I asked her, but I was slightly happy to see her again and I knew by Jasper's smile that he knew it too.
"I knew you would need help explaining certain things to them, so we came as soon as I saw. Don't worry I convinced the others I went shopping." I laughed, and she sat down next to me, Jasper choosing to stay slightly in the tree line. "So, I'll tell you my story if you tell me yours?" She asked looking straight at Stephan.
"I was "born" on November 5th, 1846 on Veritas Estate in Mystic Falls, Virginia. Damon and I were close, until Katherine came along.
I was the first to greet Katherine in 1864 when she came to live with my family. I escorted her to the Founder's Ball even though she flirted with both Damon and me. After the ball, when I walked her home, I confessed my love to her. A couple days later, we slept together, and she bit me. The next morning, when I woke up, everything from that night came back to me and I feared Katherine. Katherine compelled me to not be frightened but she let me remember what she was.
After hearing of the town's plan to kill the vampires, I went to see my father and unintentionally let him know that I knew of vampires staying in Mystic Falls, and that vampires might not be as bad as they are. He drugged me with vervain and later when Katherine went to me, she bit me. The vervain poisoned her and seconds later my father entered and set in motion Katherine's capture. Damon was furious with me for what happened to her.
After a short talk, we planned a course of action to get around the guards who were on watch for the vampires, and eventually made it to the cage where Katherine was being held captive. When we got Katherine out of the cage, Damon was shot by an unknown person. Shocked and overwhelmed with grief to see him dying, I picked up a gun to shoot whoever did it, but before I could, I was shot in the chest. As I was dying, I kept my eyes on Katherine.
The next morning, I woke up confused. My wound had been healed and noticed that I was wearing a large silver ring, with a deep blue stone and the Salvatore family crest with the letter 'S' on it." He showed us his ring and I thought it was pretty. "I was approached by Emily Bennett, she told us that Katherine had her make that ring for Damon and I weeks ago. She explained that Damon and I were now transitioning into vampires. I was confused, wondered how that was possible and Emily confessed that Katherine had compelled me for weeks to drink her blood, while Damon drank from Katherine willingly.
We then witnessed all the vampires being dragged into the church and watched as it was set on fire. Later in the evening, I notice that I had heightened senses, including super-hearing. I overheard our father discussing the vampires being captured and destroyed, and that he wanted to keep secret that Damon and I were vampire sympathizers. He preferred that Damon and I were known for dying nobly and bravely in the fight against the vampires.
When he finished his conversation with the man, I walked into his office and my father was shocked to see that I was "alive". My father retorted with disgusted disapproval that their mother would have been extremely disappointed to see what we had become. He then confessed to me that he was the one who had shot us.
After telling my father that I was going to die instead of drinking human blood. My father then tried to kill me and not underestimating my new-found strength, I ended up throwing him against the wall. He ended up getting stabbed by the stake he had. I tried to help him, but my father was disgusted by what I was becoming. When I pulled out the stake, it became too much, and I drank from my father, completing my transformation.
When I met up with Damon later that day, I told him how amazing it felt to be a vampire, that it was a gift; how he could willingly turn off his emotions, the pain and the guilt. I had compelled a young woman to go with me to Damon, where I convinced him to become a vampire by drinking her blood. Of course, Damon refused but eventually Damon drank the girl's blood and told me I was right about the feeling. I hoped this meant that we could be together forever, but Damon promised me my life would be miserable.
Weeks after, I still lacked control of my bloodlust. I went on a rampage, killing members of the Founding Families out of revenge for what they had done to Katherine. One member was Johnathan Gilbert, though he later came back to life with the help of his Gilbert ring. I continued my blood-drinking bender to try to make the guilt and pain of what I had done to Damon and our father go away. I compelled women to come home with me, so I can have some fun but then Damon found us and made the woman go home. Damon tried to convince me to control my bloodlust, but I wouldn't listen, until he announced he was leaving town. Desperate to keep my brother in my life. I begged Damon not to leave, I promised I would do better. Damon showed no sympathy for my pleas and left, telling me he would not let me get them both killed.
One night, I fed on the war-wounded in their camp. It was there that I spotted a girl in the shadows and tried to attack and feed on her. Instead, I found out she was a much older vampire named Alexia Branson. She liked to be called Lexi and she needed a place to stay, so I brought her home with me, where she found corpses drained of blood lying everywhere. Lexi told me that I was a ripper, that there are good parts of being a vampire and there are bad parts, and that I was the bad parts.
I was determined to change that. She later walked with me through the camp where we had met, asking me how I felt about the suffering war victims. She explained that I felt nothing because I had managed to turn off the human part of me. That's why I felt nothing when I killed and over the course of many decades, Lexi became my mentor, my best friend and companion, and she showed me the 'good parts' of being a vampire; how to live compassionately and reclaim the caring, empathetic person I had been as a human. From 1864 to 1912, I lived on a strict animal blood diet and no longer fed on humans.
In 1912, I returned to Mystic Falls to attend the funeral of my half-nephew, Zachariah. I saw Damon there for the first time in almost fifty years. Damon initially had no desire to rekindle any brotherly relationship with me, but I convinced Damon to join me for a drink. Later, while at a boxing ring, Damon tried to get me to have a drink of human blood with him again. I fed on her, but lost control and accidentally ripped her head off. I was angry with Damon for forcing me to drink human blood. Then I refused Damon's offer to help me learn to control it.
After drinking human blood in 1912, I returned to my former ripper lifestyle. In 1917, I was famous for my killings. In 1922, I left Mexico and traveled to Chicago. That is where I met Rebekah Michaelson and we began having an affair. I eventually met Rebekah's older half-brother, Nikolaus. At first, he didn't like me because of my relationship with Rebekah. As time went on, we bonded over our family histories and my penchant for petty cruelty toward humans and became best friends. The three of us frequently partied together.
One night, the club was attacked by the police. The police were using wooden bullets and I realized they knew there were vampires inside. Rebekah panicked, and Nik compelled me to forget about him and Rebekah. I saw Rebekah's necklace on the ground and picked it up, observing it carefully.
In April of this year, Lexi found me again and started helping me get off human blood. It took the better part of a decade to do so; around 1935, the bloodlust was getting easier, and by the 1940s, it seemed to be getting better.
In 1942, before I left for the war, I sought out Damon in New Orleans to make amends with him. Damon welcomed the reunion and seemed glad to have me back in his life after almost 100 years apart. After I told Damon about my plans to join the war effort, Damon decided that he would join with me. I didn't know it at the time, butt Lexi talked Damon out of leaving with me, saying Damon's behavior would not be good for my rehabilitation. She seemed to be proven right and I went to war thinking my brother abandoned me once again.
In 1977, I returned to Mystic Falls along with Lexi. I asked her to go help Damon in New York, he was in sore need of his humanity back.
I went to high school at Mystic Falls High School while I lived with my nephew Zach in the Salvatore Boarding House. We made sure everyone thought Zach was my uncle to keep up my secret.
It was at the high school that I met Elena. At first, I didn't know what to think because she was the spitting image of Katherine. I tried to ignore her the best I could but there was this connection that I couldn't get rid of. Over a gradual period, we fell deeply, passionately in love and eventually developed a romantic relationship. I continued my vegetarian diet, living on animal blood because I would not hurt her.
She found out I was the one who rescued her the day her parents died. I tried to save them as well, but I couldn't. I killed Matt's little sister Vikki after she couldn't control her lust and went after Elena and Jeremy. Damon turned her for fun one night to get revenge.
Damon and I overcame some of our differences when we tried to free Katherine from the tomb, but after we opened it, we discovered she wasn't there. After some of the vampires were released from the tomb, some vampires kidnapped me, tortured me and then tried to kill me. Damon and Elena saved me, I think it was the first time I ever saw them work together.
Most of the vampires were killed. Elena gave me some of her blood, so I would be stronger since I had been weakened from starvation while I was captured. I ended up becoming addicted to human blood and drank it behind Elena's back. When Damon told Elena what I was doing, we got into a fight. I ended up almost killing a girl and was stopped by Elena and Damon. They had to keep me locked up for weeks so that I would stop drinking human blood. I tried to commit suicide after I told Elena about my past. Then I learned Damon didn't blame me for making him a vampire but because Katherine wanted me and not him and he hated me for it.
We ended up finding out who Elena's biological father is and met Alaric, who as you know, is Jenna's husband. That's the most of it though. Your turn." Alice looked amazed and shocked and Jasper had his thinking face on.
I didn't know what to think but I did know...I wanted to learn so much more.