AN: SORRY! I'M SOOOO SORRY that I've been gone for sooo long. But hopefully this writing spree will continue! Thanks for sticking with me everyone!
Chapter 29: The Truth comes out
Alexis walked back into the living room, seeing Damon getting ready to grab his jacket. He walked over to her.
"Hey, I was just coming to find you. Rose and I are headed to Richmond to meet up with Slater, you want to come?" He asked her.
"And make myself a snack for Rose and her friends? No thanks." She teased. Damon scoffed, shaking his head. "No, thank you though."
"What are you going to do then?" He asked, a little confused why she didn't want to go with him, he figured she would want to find answers as much as he did.
" I think I'm just going to go grab a bite to eat and head back to the Gilbert's. I need a break from everything." She replied, hoping that Damon wouldn't realize that she was lying through her teeth. Damon eyed her for a second and then nodded.
"Alright, suit yourself." He replied, and turned and headed out the door. Alexis stared after him, she could tell that he wasn't pleased that she didn't go. Truth is, she really did want to go with him, if only she didn't promise Elena that she'd distract Stefan. She sighed, grabbing Elena's keys off of the table and headed out to the jeep.
Alexis pulled into the parking lot at Mystic Falls High, she looked at the front door, the images of her first and last day there, flashing through her mind. She was startled out of her memories when there was a tap on her window. She jumped, seeing Stefan standing outside her door. He opened her door.
"Everything okay?" He asked, she nodded getting out and shutting the door behind her. "Elena said you needed to talk, that it couldn't wait." Alexis shook her head.
"Sorry Stefan I do want to talk, but it's not horribly important that she needed to pull you out of class."
" If it wasn't important to you, you wouldn't be here right now, and it's alright, I know that Klaus won't try anything at school it's public, so I have time to talk. Let's sit." He said, pointing to the picnic tables. Alexis nodded and they headed over to them and sat down. "What's on your mind?"
"Your brother." She replied sheepishly, causing Stefan to chuckle. "No matter how hard I try, I can't stay mad at him." Stefan nodded.
"Yeah, that's the thing about Damon, he'll make you want to kill him, but two seconds later he can give you a look or say something that will make you forget why you wanted to kill him in the first place." Alexis nodded. "You really like him, don't you?" She nodded once again.
"Yeah. And I honestly have no idea what to do about it. I know that he can be a bad guy and stuff, but when he's good, he's really good, and it's what makes me-" She cuts off.
"Love him?" Stefan asked. Alexis looked at him and slowly nodded.
"I do Stefan, I love him. I have no idea how, or when it happened, or why it happened so quickly, but yeah, I do love him." Stefan smiled.
" I can tell, it's in your eyes." Alexis laughed. "And you're right, Damon can be bad, but when he's good, he's great. He's very loyal, even to me, after everything we've went through. I know that the only reason Damon sticks around, to "make me miserable" is because he loves me, and he felt hurt by what I did. I think that we are past that now, I actually enjoy being around him now, and I feel as though we are getting back to being brothers again." Stefan admitted. Alexis smiled, immediately feeling guilty. "What's wrong?" Stefan asked, sensing her mood change.
"I have something to tell you and you're not going to like it." Stefan looked at her confused.
Elena was about to give Katherine more blood when she heard someone coming down the stairs. She glanced back, seeing Stefan running down them.
"Stefan?" She asked, confused. "What are you doing here?"
"Me? What are you doing here?" He asked her, glaring at Katherine.
"Getting answers." She replied. She glanced back at the stairs once again as she heard more footsteps, this time Alexis came down. "I thought you were keeping him away?" She asked.
"I tried Elena, but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't lie to him." Elena shook her head.
"Look at you two, fighting because of little old me." Katherine gloated.
"Shut up!" Alexis yelled at her.
"Elena, you have to realize that everything she tells you is a lie, she's only trying to make things better for herself." Stefan said.
"I don't think so Stefan. Not this time." Elena argued. Katherine chuckled.
"Why would I lie?" She asked.
"Because you're an evil, manipulative bitch." Alexis replied. Katherine shook her head. "What?"
"You have a lot of fire in you."
"Yeah? Well certain people bring it out in me." She snapped.
"You know, I couldn't see it until now-" Katherine began.
"See what?"
"You're just like her."
"Just like who?" Alexis asked, Stefan and Elena, who had finally stopped their argument looked at Katherine and Alexis.
"My sister, Liliana. She had a fire in her, more fierce than anything."
"So what, I don't-"
"You don't get it do you?" Katherine asked, watching as the others stared at her, waiting for her to continue. "When John Gilbert slept with Isobel, she was not the first woman that he had gotten pregnant." Katherine paused, waiting to see if it clicked for anyone. She continued when she saw that it hadn't. "He first slept with a woman named Helen, getting her pregnant as well." She stopped, realizing that Alexis had gotten it.
"Wait, you're saying that Elena and I are-"
"Sisters, yes." Katherine finished. "And before you say that I'm lying or anything, I'm not, I followed Isobel around after I heard that she'd gtten pregnant by the Gilbert Line, which came from the Petrova line .When she got with John I overheard them talking about how he got Helen pregnant, and that she was with a man whom she was to marry. He did a DNA test and everything." She paused. "You've always wondered why you two sorta looked alike, Alexis is a spitting image of Liliana. Why do you think I took such an interest in you?" Alexis and Elena looked at each other, shocked.
"But, why didn't they ever tell us?" Elena asked, finally finding her voice to speak.
"The only ones who knew were John, Isobel and Helen. They never told anyone else as far as I know."
"Why are you telling us all of this?" Alexis asked her.
"Because, I want you to know the truth about the Doppelgangers." They all looked at her, confused. "There are actually two doppelgangers, back in the 1400's it was my sister and I, and now..."
"You're saying that Elena and I are both Doppelgangers?" Alexis asked, Katherine nodded.
"Yes, and -"
"Now I know this is a bunch of lies." Stefan began, "Why would there be two, if we only ever heard of one?"
"Because nobody else was there! Nobody else knows the truth Stefan!" Katherine yelled. "Now when there are two doppelgangers, a pattern is made. With us, the youngest was the true doppelganger, needed to break the curse." Alexis looked at Elena, realizing that she was youngest. "We found that out the hard way... Klaus came to get us one night, he was going to take both of us to be sure which one was needed, but my sister went with him, agreeing to sacrifice herself first if I could be saved." Katherine stopped, the memories flashing through her mind. "I watched from afar, as he sacrificed her, drank her blood until she had none left in her body." She paused, tears forming in her eyes. "He waited and waited, and nothing happened... He realized that he picked the wrong sister, and that's when he came after me. So, I ran, and you know the rest." She said, looking at the last of the blood in the cup on the ground. Elena bent over, sliding it to her. "I haven't even told you the best part," She began. "The pattern switches. Last time, I was the true doppelganger, this time, it's the oldest sister." She said looking at Alexis, who gasped, tears forming in her eyes.
"No." Elena said, looking at Alexis, who Elena knew was on the verge of running. "That can't be true."
"It is Elena, why would I lie? You've come here to find the truth and I've told you everything I know. I have no reason to lie to you." Katherine said, watching Alexis. Alexis looked at her, realizing that she was telling the truth, and ran out of the tomb.
"Lexi!" Elena called after her.
"If you're lying and you just did this to upset everyone Katherine, I swear I will kill you." Stefan growled, angrily shutting the rock over Katherine. He turned to face Elena. "How are you doing?"
"How am I doing? I just found out that Lexi is my sister, who is the true doppelganger who Klaus wants to sacrifice. How do you think I'm doing?" She asked, hypothetically. "I need to make a call."
Alexis ran to the front door, seeing his car in the driveway. She was glad he was home, she needed to talk to him. She walked inside the front door, walking towards the living room. She heard him talking, but to who? She walked towards the open doorway, only to step out into the open doorway and regret it. She took a sharp intake of breath, seeing Damon cuddling with Rose in front of the fireplace, half naked, underneath a blanket. Tears immediately filled her eyes as she ran out of the front door, running somewhere, anywhere that she would find some comfort.